The Gentle Subversive Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement
ISBN: 9780195172478 | 0195172477
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/31/2007
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vis... MORE
ForewordPrologue1. Spring: Sense of Wonder: Under the Sea-Wind2. Summer: Florescence: The Sea Around Us3. Fall: The Fullness of Life: From The Edge of the Sea to DDT4. Winter: The Poison Book and the Dark Season of VindicationEpilogue: Rachel Carson: The LegacyAfterwordBibliographyIndex
Mark Hamilton Lytle is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bard College. He is the author of America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon (OUP, 2006) and coauthor of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, Fifth Edition (2005), and Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic, Fifth Edition (2004).
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