A review by rachel_reece
Leave It as It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness by David Gessner

3.0

I had trouble getting through this one because the majority of it was summaries of conversations with community and national political activists. But OMG there were some excellent nuggets of nuanced perspective sprinkled throughout that I will come back to. And some great nature descriptions.

And he did a really good job of, in his words, "...resisting slamming the door on the past even if what we find there seems flawed to our eyes." I definitely gained a richer appreciation for Teddy Roosevelt!