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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publish Date:Oct 22, 2002
Paperback, 400 pages
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The environmental call-to-arms that changed a nation.
First published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land and water. Silent Spring became a runaway best seller, with international reverberations. "[It is] well-crafted, fearless and succinct. ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters," wrote Peter Matthiessen, for "Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century."
This 40th-anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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More on Rachel Carson and Silent Spring Katrina vanden Heuvel: Killing Silent Spring (The Nation) Now, more than ever, Rachel Carson's commitment to truth-telling in service of the planet needs to be fully appreciated–and revisited. |
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Killing Silent Spring Katrina vanden Heuvel on Rachel Carson's Legacy Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring and a seminal figure for the modern environmental movement, would have turned one hundred this past Sunday. "Carson's book altered the nature of environmentalism," is how the Washington Post described her legacy. "Previously, it had been mainly about preserving and appreciating parks and other beautiful places. But Carson's message was that all of nature should be protected, for its own sake and because people eventually would suffer if it was degraded." "What she said was, the Earth itself needs an advocate," said Patricia M. DeMarco, Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association. But when Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland – where Carson was a longtime resident – tried to honor her with a Senate resolution it was blocked by Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. "Rachel Carson has been an inspiration to a generation of environmentalists, scientists and biologists who made a difference and changed the irresponsible use of pesticides," Cardin said. "Honoring her 100th birthday should not be controversial. I wanted to share that with our country." ... (Read the full article at The Nation magazine.) |
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Rachel Carson (1907-64) has been called the mother of the modern environmental movement. Trained as a marine biologist, Carson worked as a writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her most famous book, Silent Spring, was published in 1962, and influenced President Kennedy to call for testing of the chemicals mentioned in the book.
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