About the Program
Part two of our discussion with Douglas Brinkley, who appeared on C-SPAN's "Q&A" program to talk about his new book "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America." The book tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's contribution to the early days of the conservation movement. Between 1901 and 1909, TR was responsible for 230 million acres of land being set aside as wilderness. Mr. Brinkley sees this as the most important initiative by a U.S. President between the Civil War and World War I. This portion of the two-part program was recorded in the archives at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia where Mr. Brinkley did some of his research for the book. The Center is part of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University in Texas and a fellow in history with the university's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. From 1994 to 2005, he was a professor of history and director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He was later a professor of history and director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane University. Prof. Brinkley's books include "Gerald R. Ford," "The Reagan Diaries," and "Jimmy Carter: The Unfinished Presidency."