Congratulations to Douglas Brinkley, winner of the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award in the history/biography category, for his book, Wilderness Warrior! Wilderness Warrior is a compreshensive biography of one of America’s most memorable presidents, Teddy Roosevelt. Don’t just take it from us, the National Outdoor Book Award site proclaims:

“Wilderness Warrior is an impeccably researched and thoroughly engrossing work on the one figure in history who set aside more of America’s outdoor heritage than any other.  Much has been written about Theodore Roosevelt, but in this ground-breaking, 940-page biography, Douglas Brinkley concentrates on Roosevelt the outdoorsman and conservationist, and in doing so, paints a vibrant portrait, as vibrant as the man himself.  One word describes it all: bully!“

Dr. Douglas Brinkley has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “America’s new past master,” and the late Stephen E. Ambrose called him “the best of the new generation of American historians.” He is the author of a number of award-winning and best-selling books, including The Great Deluge, Tour of Duty, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, Parish Priest, and, he edited the number one New York Times best-seller The Reagan Diaries, the personal diaries kept by Ronald Reagan during his time in the White House.Most recently his biography, The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America is an instant New York Times best-seller.

Historian Douglas Brinkley spoke with CBS Early Show anchor Harry Smith about the state of our national parks his new book The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, an instant New York Times best-seller.

Dr. Douglas Brinkley has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “America’s new past master,” and the late Stephen E. Ambrose called him “the best of the new generation of American historians.” He is the author of a number of award-winning and best-selling books, including The Great Deluge, Tour of Duty, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, Parish Priest, and, he edited the number one New York Times best-seller The Reagan Diaries, the personal diaries kept by Ronald Reagan during his time in the White House.