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Silent Spring

First published by Houghton Mifflin 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 bestseller, 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" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time"s 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth 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.  more

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Posted: Jun-26-2009
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I can only give a review on the delivery, which was fast. Plus the condition of the book, which was exactly as they stated on the description of it. It was purchased for my daughter for her reading list for high school, so I have not...

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Posted: Jun-10-2009
Environmental token

Know someone who is a fan of the environmental movement? This is the book where it all began, not to mention, written by a marvelous woman. Great buy.

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Posted: Apr-26-2009
This book has killed millions of people

Cherry-picking facts to present misleading statistical pictures outside of their context is reprehensible at best. Science is not about agendas; it's about getting after the truth. Ideas have consequences, as do dangerous, ideological...

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Posted: Mar-18-2009
We Owe It to Ourselves

This reviewer remembers, as a small child, watching crop duster planes spraying the farm fields eastern Long Island, NY. That would have been in the early 50s. 10 years later, Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring". It was those very same...

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Posted: Jun-26-2009
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Silent Spring?

In 1962, while still in college, I received, as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company, c. 1962). It opened my eyes to something I'd never considered: environmental...

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This book has killed millions of people

Cherry-picking facts to present misleading statistical pictures outside of their context is reprehensible at best. Science is not about agendas; it's about getting after the truth. Ideas have consequences, as do dangerous, ideological...

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