{"product_id":"9781136696008","title":"A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this beautifully written account, John Thomas details an intimate portrait of the intellectual friendship between two commanding figures of western letters and the early environmental movement--Wallace Stegner and Bernard DeVoto.. The authors of enormously popular works--Stegner most well known for his novels \u003cem\u003eThe Big Rock Candy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eMountain\u003c\/em\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eAngle of Repose\u003c\/em\u003e and DeVoto for his classic history of western exploration, \u003cem\u003eThe Course of Empire\u003c\/em\u003e--they also played important roles in the efforts to stop government and private interests from carving up the vanishing West. Part of the fractious group of public intellectuals at Harvard that included Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, and Arthur Schlesinger, Sr., they saw no contradiction between their literary and political selves and entered the public debate with conviction and passion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on their writings, personal correspondence, and dozens of articles from the pages of \u003cem\u003eHarper's,\u003c\/em\u003e where DeVoto was a columnist for years, this illuminating account demonstrates how their concerns for the western environment continue to resonate today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46511830532337,"sku":"9781136696008","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781136696008_p0.jpg?v=1765491842","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781136696008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}