The Weekly Anthropocene Reviews: Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley
A The Weekly Anthropocene Book Review
Douglas Brinkley is among the greatest living American historians. For over a decade, he’s been publishing a magisterial series on the history of the American environmental movement (which this reviewer has very much enjoyed), including The Wilderness Warrior (covering Theodore Roosevelt’s life and presidency), The Quiet World (covering the conservation of Alaska), and Rightful Heritage (covering the surprisingly extensive environmental work of President Franklin D. Roosevelt). Now, in Silent Spring Revolution, Professor Brinkley takes on another monumental task: summarizing the epic surge of environmental action that took place in America in the 1960s and early 1970s, from Rachel Carson’s publication of Silent Spring in 1962 through the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
As a result, Silent Spring Revolution is an astonishing rich and multifaceted book, pulling together and interweaving a staggering large number of well-researched narrative threads in over 650 densely-writ…
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