||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A still-relevant view of the West from mid-century|By Arthur Digbee|Bernard DeVoto has a historian at Harvard, columnist at Harper's magazine, and winner of the Pulitzer prize before his early death in 1955. This long book collects two groups of his writings, a selection of his Harper's essays and an unfinished manuscript on "The Western Paradox."
The essays in the||"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself... His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword|
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploi...
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