The Gentle Subversive Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement |
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| Author:
| Lytle, Mark Hamilton |
| Series title: | New Narratives in American History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-517247-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $24.99 |
Book Description:
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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 life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will...
More DescriptionRachel 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 life of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book.
Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.