"Roger Kennedy has written a valuable book that all taxpayers in the country should read. Long standing policies designed with the best intentions encouraged many Americans to build houses in unsafe places. When threatened by fire and flood the taxpayer is often called upon to bail them out. Kennedy rightfully calls for a rational approach to our policies supporting home construction to ensure that we are not jeopardizing lives and property, while imposing high burdens on the US taxpayer."—Theodore Roosevelt IV
"Eloquent and incisive, old-government-hand Kennedy shows how a set of wrong policies can do increasing harm for decades, yet become entrenched despite gross failure. The book is a masterpiece of details, not only of the specifics of fire and land-use misplanning, but of the whole historic narrative that got us into the fix. That perspective enables him to show a way out." --Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation
"Equal parts detective story, Cold War mystery, environmental history lesson, and policy treatise, Roger Kennedy’s Wildfire and Americans offers an unsurpassed investigation into the root causes of runaway wildfires." --Don Chen, Executive Director, Smart Growth America
"Americans seem increasingly determined to locate in the path of natural disaster, be it flood or fire. Kennedy's almost renaissance review of the dangers and the solutions is must reading, especially in light of Katrina and the recent great fires of the West and Southwest." --Parris N. Glendening, Governor of Maryland 1995-2003
“It’s the most enjoyable thing I’ve read in a long time [and] will simply require everyone to get serious about the intellectual and historical dimensions of our fire landscape, which is to say, ourselves. Well done!” --Steve Pyne, author of Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires and Fire: A Brief History
“A wonderful contribution! Kennedy reaches into the depths of public policy, ethics, and ecology to draw out practical solutions that will allow us to respect each other, respect fire, and live more lightly on the land.” --William L. Baker, Professor of Geography, University of Wyoming
“I would like every architect, planner, developer, real estate sales person, and public administrator and elected official to read and contemplate this work.” --W. Cecil Steward, FAIA, President, Joslyn Castle Institute, Dean Emeritus and Emeritus Professor, University of Nebraska College of Architecture.
Praise for Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause:
"Forces us to reconsider settled opinions." ---Wall Street Journal
"Well-researched, well-written and provocative." ---Santa Fe New Mexican
Praise for Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson:
"Roger Kennedy comes out of a lengthy political career and writes with the authority of a man who has walked the corridors of power." ---Men's Journal
