Douglas Brinkley (2011)

Historian, Author

air date: Jan 20, 2011

Douglas Brinkley’s books explore American history from old times to new, from one end of the country to the other, through profiles of events and people and institutions. His book “The Quiet World: Saving Alaska’s Wilderness Kingdom” was published in 2011.

• The Quiet World and the history of conservation
• Shell oil, drilling in ANWR, and camping in the Arctic
• National parks
• History, politics, and Walter Cronkite

Podcasts

Overheard interviews are also available as podcasts on the iTunes Store.