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--John Demos, Samuel Knight Professor of History at Yale University, and author of Entertaining Satan", winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History, and "The"Unredeemed Captive", which was a finalist for the National Book Award
"Right from its quietly shocking prelude--the cavalier and surprisingly recent murder of the oldest living thing in North America--Eric Rutkow's splendid saga shows, through a chain of stories and biographical sketches that are intimate, fresh, and often startling, how trees have shaped every aspect of our national life. Here is the tree as symbol and as tool, as companion and enemy, as a tonic for our spirits and the indispensable ingredient of our every enterprise from the colonization voyages to the transcontinental railroad to Levittown. The result, both fascinating and valuable, is a sort of shadow history of America. Toward the end of his finest novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald writes that the 'vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of human dreams.' AMERICAN CANOPY retrieves those trees and does full-rigged (on tall, white pine masts) justice to the dream."
--Richard Snow, author of A Measureless Peril and former Editor-in-Chief of American Heritage
"For those who see our history through the traditional categories of politics, economics, and culture, a delightful feast awaits. In this remarkably inventive book, Eric Rutkow looks at our national experience through the lens of our magnificent trees, showing their extraordinary importance in shaping how we lived, thrived, and expanded as a people. A beautifully written, devilishly original piece of work."
--David Oshinsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Polio: An American Story"
"An even-handed and comprehensive history that could not be more relevant...The woods, Rutkow's history reminds us again and again, are essential to our humanity."
"Rutkow has cut through America's use and love of trees to reveal the rings of our nation's history and the people who have helped shape it."
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