Summary of Timothy Egan's The Big Burn

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#1 Gifford Pinchot was a bit odd, but he was self-aware enough to know that he was considered strange. He knew Roosevelt from sportsmen circles in the Empire State, and they came to the governor's mansion in Albany with Christopher Grant La Farge, son of the painter John La Farge, a close friend of Teddy's.

#2 The two men talked about the forest protection and the fear of a coming timber famine caused by industrial-age logging. They agreed that Americans had become too shortsighted with the continent they now straddled.

#3 Roosevelt and Pinchot agreed to a boxing match. Pinchot was a backup quarterback on the football team at Yale, and he was quick on his feet for a big man. He was a little worried about his six-inch height advantage over T. R. , who stood five feet eight inches.

#4 Roosevelt had a very delayed adolescence, as he was always looking out for his best interests. He married the beautiful Alice Hathaway Lee in 1884, and was elected to the New York Assembly the same year. He was Republican minority leader at twenty-five.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822531246

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Insights on Timothy Egan's The Big Burn

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Gifford Pinchot was a bit odd, but he was self-aware enough to know that he was considered strange. He knew Roosevelt from sportsmen circles in the Empire State, and they came to the governor's mansion in Albany with Christopher Grant La Farge, son of the painter John La Farge, a close friend of Teddy's.

#2

The two men talked about the forest protection and the fear of a coming timber famine caused by industrial-age logging. They agreed that Americans had become too shortsighted with the continent they now straddled.

#3

Roosevelt and Pinchot agreed to a boxing match. Pinchot was a backup quarterback on the football team at Yale, and he was quick on his feet for a big man. He was a little worried about his six-inch height advantage over T. R. , who stood five feet eight inches.

#4

Roosevelt had a very delayed adolescence, as he was always looking out for his best interests. He married the beautiful Alice Hathaway Lee in 1884, and was elected to the New York Assembly the same year. He was Republican minority leader at twenty-five.

#5

After two years in the West, Roosevelt returned to New York and resumed his political career. He ran for mayor in 1886, and lost, but considered the whole experience a lark. He had a disdain for the more gaudy members of the gilded class.

#6

The second fight was with fists only, and here Roosevelt seemed to have the advantage because of his regular sparring. But Pinchot had a much longer wingspan, and he could simply circle around Roosevelt, keeping his distance.

#7

Gifford Pinchot was raised in New York, Connecticut, and the bluestone manse in Pennsylvania, in even greater wealth than his father had known. His mother, Mary, came from a big merchant and