Jack E. Davis is the author of the award-winning “The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea” and “An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century.” A professor of environmental history at the University of Florida, he lives in Florida and New Hampshire. Featured at the 2022 National Book Festival, his new book, “The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird,” traces the national symbol’s representations in history through Founding Fathers, bird hunters and the lives of bald eagles themselves to reflect on the bird’s place in America today.