Volume 38, Number 8 · April 25, 1991
Aggressive Progressive
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952
by T.H. Watkins
Holt, 1,010 pp., $35.00
In most countries the minister of the interior is the official in charge of the state police and internal security, a frightening figure. The American secretary of the interior, by contrast, is a presumably benign fellow, guardian, or at least custodian, of the nation's natural resources—public lands, national parks, mines, waterways, and fisheries. He is in charge of hydro-electric power and Indian reservations and the overseas territories.
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