The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy EganMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is as good as Norman Maclean's book on the fire of 1949: Young Men and Fire. Riveting in its build up, clear in descriptions of the people, politics, and place. What resonated as much as anything was Teddy Roosevelt and his excoriating harangues on the big money and tycoons of the day: sounds like Bush era all over again: complete disregard for common social decency.
