CSPAN2 Jack David Discusses The Gulf April 16, 2017
Some of the best nonfiction writingallows us to see something we thought we knew wellin an entirely new way. This has been the power of my friend, jack davis career, as an environmental, historian who examines the past not through the side glasses of sailors but through the curve of the land, the running of the tide and the rush of the wind and rain. This is also the power of jacks new book were here to celebrate, the gulf the making of an american city. The clear light of nature, tells a truer story, than the cloudy minds of men. Nature decorates in his introduction has been and i quote parti...