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Author Timothy Egan shares a bit of NW history with the world in 'The Big Burn'

Our Lit Life columnist chats with Timothy Egan about "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America" — a book that takes an obscure 1910 wildfire in the Pacific Northwest and makes people care about it.

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A 'Wimpy Kid' outsells Dan Brown and Timothy Egan at Eagle Harbor Books

A 'Wimpy Kid' outsells Dan Brown and Timothy Egan at Eagle Harbor BooksBut "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days," "The Lost Symbol" and "The Big Burn" are all best-sellers at Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island.

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Timothy Egan

Having been through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest many times, having swung a Pulaski doing trail maintenance work as a teen, I never considered their origins. Yet Timothy Egan relates how both men—one who led the U.S. Forest Service, the other, Ed Pulaski, a humble Idaho forester—def...

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Secret Lives of the Presidents – Timothy Egan Blog – NYTimes.com

... already known, in excerpts released over the summer months. via Secret Lives of the Presidents – Timothy Egan Blog – NYTimes.com .

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The Way We Die Now

This article by Timothy Egan is a real gem. He gets past the “death panel” and “they’re gonna take your Medicaid!” rhetoric and discusses how end-of-life care should really look. And he emphasizes that while many (or even most) people wish to die at home with their pain managed, the current U.S. health [...]

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The Way We Die Now

Timothy Egan NYT PORTLAND, Ore. —– In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television. Or she could go home and finish the love story with the man she’d been married to for 65 years. Her husband was a soldier who...

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The Way We Die Now

My new favorite author, Timothy Egan*, has a great opinion piece in the New York Times: Nobody was more frustrated than John Kitzhaber as the health care debate got hijacked over the summer by shouters and misinformation specialists. And no...

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Queen Anne Books' best sellers

Local authors Sherman Alexie and Timothy Egan are among the top sellers at Queen Anne Books.

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A Week of Entertainment: Books Reviewed in Entertainment Weekly 06 Nov 09

Each week Entertainment Weekly reviews a small selection of popular new books. Titles available for the Kindle reviewed in the November 6th issue include: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America , by Timothy Egan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. NONFICTION/HISTORY. EW's slant: "Few writers have the Pulitzer Prize-winning Egan's gift for transforming history...

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It All Began with Roosevelt

Not Franklin Roosevelt, but Teddy Roosevelt. In her interview today, NPR’s Terry Gross talked with Timothy Egan. Egan is the author of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, about a massive forest fire in 1910 that saved Roosevelt’s National Forest Service and the reputation of Gifford Pinchot. Theodore Roosevelt, according to Tom Woods, ”is...

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Department of Book Reports: The Big Burn

The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt and The Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin, $27) For those of you who enjoyed Ken Burn's National Parks, I suggest this excellent history of how our National Forests came into being. We saw terrible fires in California this past summer, 100,000 acres burned and many houses were lost. This is small in comparison to the fire that swept...

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From 1910's ashes rose ecological, political renewal

The Big BurnTeddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved AmericaBy Timothy EganHoughton Mifflin Harcourt.324 pp. $27Reviewed by Rick BassIt's hard to write about fire, which is such a dynamic, swirling, chaotic force. It's hard also to write about politics - the sumo-wrestler shoving of wills that takes decades to decide, with the accumulation of small events, speeches, bills, and battles...

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Gordon on Dorothea Lange, and more in the book reviews

... and by David Cloud and Greg Jaffe.by William Patry is taken up in the Los Angeles Times; by Timothy Egan is reviewed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.Sherrilyn A. Ifill, , Women's Review of Books, reviews Mia Bay, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells and Paula Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching. .

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'The Big Burn': the incendiary politics of a monster wildfire

"The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" is Timothy Egan's account of a monster 1910 wildfire that scorched more than 3 million acres in the West, and how the conflagration helped rescue the U.S. Forest Service from powerful political enemies. Egan reads Monday at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.

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When fire came over the mountain

THE BIG BURN By Timothy Egan Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 352 pages. Not since David McCullough's 1968 "The Johnstown Flood" grabbed readers and hurled them down the narrow Conemaugh Valley to certain doom can I remember a natural-disaster yarn that yanks one by the back of the neck face to face with horror the way Timothy Egan's "The Big Burn" brings...