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[F.R.E.E] [D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D] [R.E.A.D] The National Parks: America's Best Idea {read online}[F.R.E.E][D.O.W.N.L.O.A.D][R.E.A.D] The NationalParks: America's BestIdea {read online}DescriptionAmazon.com Amazon Exclusive: Joseph J. Ellis Reviews The National Parks Educated atthe College of William and Mary and Yale University, Joseph J. Ellis is a Ford FoundationProfessor of History at Mount Holyoke College. His won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, andearned the 1997 National Book Award. His latest work, , was published in 2007. Read Ellis'sexclusive Amazon guest review of The National Parks: America's Best Idea: If KenBurnsâ€s upcoming documentary film on Americaâ€s National Parks is as good as the booklaying open before me, he has another huge winner. Of course the book, entitled The NationalParks: Americaâ€s Best Idea, is intended as a companion to the film, but as I see it--literally--thebook permits the eye and mind to linger over the truly breathtaking pictures in a more meditativeway that film does not allow. The result is almost elegiac, producing the same kind of goosebumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Civil War. Burns hasbeen chronicling the American experience for over thirty years, and I think itâ€s fair to say thatno one has influenced more living Americans to think about our history as a people and a nation.His dominant themes have been space and race, his persistent question deceptively simple: whoare we? I think The National Parks is his masterpiece on the space theme. And the message thatkept whispering to me in these pages was that whoever we are has been decisively shaped by thesheer physicality of the continent we inhabit. It never occurred to me before, but Americansinvented the idea institutionalized in our National Parks. Namely, as Burns puts it in theintroduction, â€œfor the first time in human history, land--great sections of our natural landscape--was set aside, not for kings or noblemen or the very rich, but for everyone, for all time.â€• AsWallace Stegner once observed, and the bookâ€s subtitle echoes, this may have beenâ€œAmericaâ€s best idea.â€• Burns links the idea to Jeffersonâ€s magic words in theDeclaration of Independence (i.e. â€œWe hold these truths...â€•), our quasi-sacred text on humanfreedom, which takes on an almost spiritual resonance amidst the vistas of Yosemite orYellowstone. Dayton Duncan, Burns's longtime colleague, has provided most of the text, which isdesigned to cast a spell that matches the wonder of the stunning illustrations. The book looksluxurious and feels expensive, but this visit to the National Parks is a great deal.--Joseph J. Ellis(Photo Â© Jim Gipe) Look Inside The National Parks Click on thumbnails for larger imagesRead more Starred Review. Duncan and Burns, who last teamed on Horatio's Drive: America'sFirst Road Trip, rejoin in this visually stunning guide to the unforgettable landscapes and
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