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American CanopyOut of the Woods tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and trees across the entire span of the nation’s history.Read More
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BusinessWeek, May 3, 2012
...or responsible exploitation is pitted against naive celebration and impassioned conservation, a 400-year-old tension at the heart of Eric Rutkow’s richly distilled cultural history of our woods, American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a...
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2012
...importance of wood and how “North America’s virgin forest gave rise to a new nation.” The author, Eric Rutkow, credits pulp with “no less than democratizing reading, transforming food storage, and revolutionizing personal hygiene,” Green...
Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2012
...outside the library and in our troubled landscape. American Canopy Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation Eric Rutkow Scribner: 407 pp., $29 Every book has its quirks. In the case of the newly published history "American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and...
Denver Post, April 22, 2012
...New York City's "year of anarchy" fueled by ideas much like the Occupy movement. American Canopy, by Eric Rutkow. Who knew how much American history was influenced by trees? This author does. After Camelot, by J. Randy Taraborrelli. A More Powerful Than...
Cleveland Live, April 22, 2012
...me. Which makes me a lot like the rest of us, writes environmental attorney and Yale doctoral student Eric Rutkow in his debut book, "American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation." Rutkow contends that we modern citizens are sadly branching...
STLtoday.com, April 21, 2012
...on political, military or business men. But in recent years the protagonists of serious studies are often nonhuman. Eric Rutkow, a lawyer studying to acquire a doctorate in history, has written "American Canopy," a history of trees in the United States....
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2012
...importance of wood and how “North America’s virgin forest gave rise to a new nation.” The author, Eric Rutkow, credits pulp with “no less than democratizing reading, transforming food storage, and revolutionizing personal hygiene,” Green...
Huffington Post, April 27, 2012
...We find ourselves in the middle of tree planting season. The weather conditions are ideal, Earth Day has just passed, and most states will observe Arbor Day near the end of April. It might feel like it's always been this way, but nothing could be further...
Huffington Post, April 27, 2012
...a tree this spring, you'll not only be investing in the future but connecting to the past. Eric Rutkow is the author of American Canopy [Simon & Schuster, $29.00]...
Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2012
...a Nation," the prevailing eccentricity is that it's not primarily about trees. The leitmotif of author Eric Rutkow is wood, chiefly how North American virgin forest gave rise to a new nation, and how the U.S. has reduced that resource from close to a...
Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2012
...outside the library and in our troubled landscape. American Canopy Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation Eric Rutkow Scribner: 407 pp., $29 Every book has its quirks. In the case of the newly published history "American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and...
Denver Post, April 22, 2012
...New York City's "year of anarchy" fueled by ideas much like the Occupy movement. American Canopy, by Eric Rutkow. Who knew how much American history was influenced by trees? This author does. After Camelot, by J. Randy Taraborrelli. A More Powerful Than...
Cleveland Live, April 22, 2012
...me. Which makes me a lot like the rest of us, writes environmental attorney and Yale doctoral student Eric Rutkow in his debut book, "American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation." Rutkow contends that we modern citizens are sadly branching...
