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$DOWNLOAD$ [EBOOK] The National Parks: America's Best Idea [R.A.R]$DOWNLOAD$[EBOOK] TheNational Parks:America's BestIdea [R.A.R]DescriptionAmazon.com Amazon Exclusive: Joseph J. Ellis Reviews The National ParksEducated at the College of William and Mary and Yale University, JosephJ. Ellis is a Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount HolyokeCollege. His won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001, and earned the 1997National Book Award. His latest work, , was published in 2007. ReadEllis's exclusive Amazon guest review of The National Parks: America'sBest Idea: If Ken Burnsâ€s upcoming documentary film on Americaâ€sNational Parks is as good as the book laying open before me, he hasanother huge winner. Of course the book, entitled The National Parks:Americaâ€s Best Idea, is intended as a companion to the film, but as Isee it--literally--the book permits the eye and mind to linger over thetruly breathtaking pictures in a more meditative way that film does notallow. The result is almost elegiac, producing the same kind of goosebumps that Burns created in his early work on the Brooklyn Bridge andthe Civil War. Burns has been chronicling the American experience forover thirty years, and I think itâ€s fair to say that no one hasinfluenced more living Americans to think about our history as a peopleand a nation. His dominant themes have been space and race, hispersistent question deceptively simple: who are we? I think The NationalParks is his masterpiece on the space theme. And the message that keptwhispering to me in these pages was that whoever we are has beendecisively shaped by the sheer physicality of the continent we inhabit.It never occurred to me before, but Americans invented the ideainstitutionalized in our National Parks. Namely, as Burns puts it in theintroduction, â€œfor the first time in human history, land--greatsections of our natural landscape--was set aside, not for kings ornoblemen or the very rich, but for everyone, for all time.â€• As WallaceStegner once observed, and the bookâ€s subtitle echoes, this may havebeen â€œAmericaâ€s best idea.â€• Burns links the idea to Jeffersonâ€smagic words in the Declaration of Independence (i.e. â€œWe hold thesetruths...â€•), our quasi-sacred text on human freedom, which takes on analmost spiritual resonance amidst the vistas of Yosemite or Yellowstone.Dayton Duncan, Burns's longtime colleague, has provided most of thetext, which is designed to cast a spell that matches the wonder of thestunning illustrations. The book looks luxurious 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 thumbnailsfor larger images Starred Review. Duncan and Burns, who last teamed on
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