From the Duck Dynasty star and #1 NY Times bestselling author comes a rollicking popular history of angling in America.

American Fisherman traces the impact angling has already established in shaping America’s history, and reveals the influential role it has played in defining our lives. Willie Robertson persuasively argues that America became what it really is today in no small part because of the fishermen that contact it house. From harvesting New Britain cod to journey angling for Yellowstone trout to raising Pacific about The American Fisherman: How Our Nation’s Fishermen Founded, Fed, Financed, and Forever Designed the U.S.A. Northwest salmon, the fishing industry has long played an essential part in the establishment of several of the nation’s earliest ports, especially along the East Coastline. Robertson explores how fishing has informed our tradition, in literature, movies, and television, from classics like The Old Guy and the Sea, A River Runs Through It, and Moby-Dick to AN IDEAL Surprise, In the Center of the ocean, as well as the Deadliest Catch, to popular local television fishing programs from coast to coast.

Robertson also analyzes the economics of the $50 billion annual business which supports a bunch of sectors, including tourism and production, as well as conservationism. Told in Robertson’s captivating down-home voice, American Fisherman is a spirited and unique take a look at America and its people.