Books, Arts & Manners: Scandal in Yellowstone

Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park, by Alston Chase (Atlantic Monthly, 446 pp., $24.95)

Exposés of government mismanagement and corruption have been rolling off the presses at an almost exponential rate in recent years. We have now come to expect some agencies to work tirelessly against the American people’s best interests, and we are caught by surprise when they occasionally make a mistake in our favor. But with park rangers outfitted in Rough Rider uniforms, the National Park Service is one federal bureau that most of us would tend not to be suspicious of.

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Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America’s First National Park, by Alston Chase (Atlantic Monthly, 446 pp., $24.95)

Exposés of government mismanagement and corruption have been rolling off the presses at an almost exponential rate in recent years. We have now come to expect some agencies to work tirelessly against the American people’s best interests, and we are caught by surprise when they occasionally make a mistake in our favor. But with park rangers outfitted in Rough Rider uniforms, the National Park Service is one federal bureau that most of us would tend not to be suspicious of.