The Forgotten Founders by Stewart L Udall

The Forgotten Founders by Stewart L Udall

For most Americans, the Wild West popularized in movies and pulp novels - a land of intrepid traders and explorers, warlike natives, and trigger-happy gunslingers - has become the true history of the region. The story of the West's development is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to former Secretary of the Interior and native westerner Stewart L. Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe. In The Forgotten Founders, Udall draws on extensive research and his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement. Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a wild west has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Udall substitutes a compelling description of an O

"The West is so cluttered with misconceptions that it is hard to have a serious discussion about its history" - Wallace Stegner

Stewart L. Udall was elected to four terms as congressman from Arizona before being appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be secretary of the interior, a position he held for eight years during the administrations of President Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is author of six books, including the bestselling The Quiet Crisis (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963), To the Inland Empire (Doubleday, 1987) and The Myths of August (Pantheon, 1994).

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ISBN 13	9781559638937
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Titel	The Forgotten Founders
Autor	Stewart L Udall
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Island Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-09-01
Seitenanzahl	208
Preise	Short-listed for Reading the West (Nonfiction) 2003
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