| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape. By Gayle Brandow Samuels. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1999. xvi, 193 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8135-2721-X.)

"'America,' Wallace Stegner wrote, 'was not only a new world waiting to be discovered; it was a fable waiting to be agreed upon.' It still is," writes Gayle Brandow Samuels. In Enduring Roots, she has given us a collection of American fables about trees. These stories urge us to reclaim the past and celebrate the better side of our nature. 1

Enduring Roots is beautifully written; always engaging, often lyrical. The research underlying the stories is impressive in breadth, adequate in depth. Samuels presents her stories in their historical roundness rather than spinning yarns from a few selected bits of evidence, as landscape history sometimes does. This is a competent and compelling work that encourages us to make moral choices about which stories we take to heart. . . .

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