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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the&#160;2018 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeAn&#160;Outside&#160;Magazine Best Book of 2017A Science Friday Best Science Book of 2017&ldquo;Blakeslee draws O-Six in novelistic... detail, using the conflicting insight and perspective of biologists, politicians, ranchers, environmentalists, lawyers, other animals, and hunters.... Seeing a wolf is exceptionally rare, and this book is as close as most readers will come.&rdquo;&#160; &mdash;The New Yorker&ldquo;A matriarch overthrown in what seems fairly described as a 'putsch,' marauding gangs running attacks into neighboring territory, an hours-long standoff with a grizzly, a discarded water bottle&mdash;a rarity in the wilderness of a national park&mdash;tossed around and protected like a prized new toy. The lives of the wolves in Yellowstone are often dramatic, but are full of touching, tender moments too, as Nate Blakeslee vividly writes in American Wolf.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times &#160;"The story of one wolf&rsquo;s struggle to survive in the majestic Yellowstone National Park offers an ambitious look through the eyes of an endangered animal."&mdash;New York Times Book Review&ldquo;Ambitious... a significant and engaging work. It&rsquo;s easy to write about the importance of local social life. It&rsquo;s harder to know what to do to support it.... Klinenberg&rsquo;s argument has a powerful simplicity. Look after the social infrastructure and social bonds will largely look after themselves.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times&ldquo;American Wolf&#160;takes its place in a long lineage of wolf books.... 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Blakeslee&rsquo;s masterly use of fiction writing techniques to ratchet up the tension will hook a wide swath of readers.&rdquo;&#160;&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &mdash;Library Journal (starred) &ldquo;A savory blend of hardcore journalism, biodiversity analysis, weather and terrain reporting and good old-fashioned storytelling...&#160;American Wolf&#160;is the tale of an extraordinary wolf and those absorbed with her storied life.&rdquo;&mdash;Shelf Awareness &#160; &ldquo;Nate Blakeslee has achieved the Jack London-like feat of creating a great story whose main character is an animal." &mdash;Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test and Redemption &#160; &ldquo;There are so few wolves in the West that each one can cast a kind of enchantment. This fine book takes one animal, and uses it as a way to understand the vectors that whipsaw the last wild places. 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Blakeslee hauntingly gives the victims faces, families, and stories. A quietly angry, aching, important book.&rdquo; &mdash;Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast &#160; &ldquo;A compelling environmental drama of the reintroduction of wolves to the Rockies, as clear-sighted on human politics as it is on wolf politics." &mdash;Neil Ansell, author of Deep Country &#160; &ldquo;The Game of Thrones story of modern western wolves, [unfolding] in just as riveting a fashion. It is an absolutely mesmerizing read.&rdquo; &mdash;Dan Flores, author of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History &#160; &ldquo;American Wolf gives us true profiles of wolf lives lived in their actual families. And when humans get involved, the trajectory of their lives forever changes.&rdquo; &mdash;Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel &#160; &ldquo;Written with heart, but not sentimentality, American Wolf is nothing less than Shakespearean tragedy played out against the backdrop of our troubled relationship with nature.&rdquo;  &mdash;J.B. MacKinnon, author of The Once and Future World"[American Wolf] is about the compatibility and clash between man and environment, heritage and the future, politics and practice, and seemingly countless nuances that demonstrate the complexity of the West."&mdash;Idaho Statesman&ldquo;O-Six is the definition of an alpha&mdash;strong, cunning, and a protector through and through. Her life in the wild is constantly challenged by other wolves, cattle ranchers, and hunters. 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The Old Debauchees

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