{"product_id":"gentle-subversive-rachel-carson-silent-spring-and-the-rise-of-the-environmental-movement-9780195172478","title":"Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel Carson's \u003cem\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Gentle Subversive\u003c\/em\u003e, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book.\u003cbr\u003e 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 vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children's magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, \u003cem\u003eUnder the Sea-Wind\u003c\/em\u003e, the incredible success of \u003cem\u003eThe Sea Around Us\u003c\/em\u003e (a \u003cem\u003eNew\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eYork Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her \"poison book\" \u003cem\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/em\u003e. The author contends that despite Carson's demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, women, and other concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle with cancer.\u003cbr\u003e Succinct and engaging, \u003cem\u003eThe Gentle Subversive\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Hamilton Lytle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.84w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195172478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Hamilton Lytle\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bard College. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAmerica's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2006) and coauthor of \u003cem\u003eAfter the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, \u003c\/em\u003e Fifth Edition (2005), and \u003cem\u003eNation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic, \u003c\/em\u003e Fifth Edition (2004).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43182354137203,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":48.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_15b5d1c8-38ee-4421-8bb5-cb6f15f858fc.jpg?v=1752147855","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gentle-subversive-rachel-carson-silent-spring-and-the-rise-of-the-environmental-movement-9780195172478","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}