Rachel Carson

Carson, Rachel Louise - 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life—Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954)—combine keen scientific observation with rich poetic description. Her Silent Spring (1962), a provocative study of the dangers of certain Read More...

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And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
by Craig Waddell. 234 pgs.

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Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword Paul Brook, Carson's editor ar Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an after word, Linda Lear, Carson's recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson's life an outlines the attention that Carson's book and Carson herself received form scholars and biographers, tension that focused so minutely on her life that it detracted from a focus on her work. The of reword by Brooks and the afterward by Lear frame this exploration within the context of Carson's life and work.
Contributors are Edward P. J. Corbett, Carol B. Gartner, Cheryll Glotfelty, Randy Harris, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Ralp H. Lutts, Christine Oravec, Jacqueline S. Palmer, Markus J. Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, and Craig Waddell. Together, these essays explore Silent Spring effectiveness in conveying its disturbing message and the rhetorical strategies that helped create its wide influence.

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Foreword: Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

Acknowledgments

1: CRAIG WADDELL The Reception of Silent Spring: An Introduction

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2: Chemical Fallout: Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout, and the Environmental Movement

Notes

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3: CHRISTINE ORAVEC An Inventional Archaeology of "A Fable for Tomorrow"

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4: A Topical Analysis of "The Obligation to Endure"

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5: Ecology According to Silent Spring's Vision of Progress

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6: When Science Writing Becomes Literary Art: The Success of Silent Spring

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7: Other-Words in Silent Spring

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8: Cold War, Silent Spring: The Trope of War in Modern Environmentalism

Appendix Chronology

Works Cited

9: Silent Spring and Science Fiction: An Essay in the History and Rhetoric of Narrative

Appendix Narrative Elements in Silent Spring

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Afterword: Searching for Rachel Carson

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Dreamers & Defenders: American Conservationists (Chap. 8 "Rachel Carson")
by Douglas H. Strong. 302 pgs.

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Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: the Forerunners: Thoreau, Olmsted, Marsh

Chapter 2: John Wesley Powell

Chapter 3: Gifford Pinchot

Chapter 4: John Muir

Chapter 5:Stephen Mather

Chapter 6: Aldo Leopold

Chapter 7: Harold Ickes

Chapter 8: Rachel Carson

Chapter 9: David Brower

Chapter 10: Barry Commoner

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

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Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America ("Rhetoric and the Critique of Science in Carson's Silent Spring" begins on p. 64)
by M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Jacqueline S. Palmer. 314 pgs.

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1: Varieties of Environmentalism: A Genealogy

2: The Rhetoric of Scientific Activism

3: Scientific Ecology and the Rhetoric of Distance

4: Transformations of Scientific Discourse in the News Media

5: The Environmental Impact Statement and the Rhetoric of Democracy

6: Rhetoric and Action in Ecotopian Discourse

7: Ecological Economics and the Rhetoric of Sustainability

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Made from This Earth: American Women and Nature (Chap. 5 "Nature's Advocates: Rachel Carson and Her Colleagues")
by Vera Norwood. 368 pgs.

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Gender & American Culture

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Illustrations

Preface

1: Sources for American Women's Nature Study

2: Pleasures of the Country Life

3: The Illustrators Women's Drawings of Nature's Artifacts

4: Designing Nature Gardeners and Their Gardens

5: Nature's Advocates

6: Writing Animal Presence Nature in Euro-American, African American, and American Indian Fiction

7: Women and Wildlife

8: She Unnames Them

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Bibliography

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Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies ("The Obligation to Endure," an excerpt from Silent Spring begins on p. 569)
by Nancy S. Love. 616 pgs.

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Nancy Love introduces the reader to the history and evolution of the main categories of political ideology including socialism, fascism, anarchism, conservativism, liberalism and democracy. A new section has been added on environmentalism.

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Introduction Ideology and Democracy

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Part One: Liberalism and Democracy

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1: John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government

2: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

3: John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative

4: The Federalist Papers

5: Pluralism within Unity

6: Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

7: Isaac Kramnick, Equal Opportunity and the 'Race of Life'

Part Two: Conservatism

8: On Being Conservative

9: Reflections on the Revolution in France

10: Capitalism, Socialism, and Nihilism

11: The Power of the Positive Woman

12: The Democratization of the University

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Part Three: Socialism

Notes

13: Utopian Socialism

14: Estranged Labor

15: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

16: Value, Price, and Profit

17: What Is to Be Done?

18: The Economic Base of the Withering Away of the State

19: Evolutionary Socialism

20: STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

Part Four: Anarchism

Notes

21: Anarchism: What It Really Stands

22: Henry David Thoreau, Essay on Civil Disobedience

23: Petyr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid

24: Mikhail Bakunin, Scientific Anarchism

Conclusion

Notes

25: Mikhail Bakunin, Scientific Anarchism

26: Friedrich Engels, On Authority and Versus the Anarchists

Part Five: Fascism

Notes

27: Joseph Mazzini, The Duties of Man

28: Benito Mussolini, Fascism: Doctrine and Institutions

29: Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

30: HELEN ZIA, Women in Hate Groups

Part Six: Feminism

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31: Betty Friedan, Our Revolution Is Unique

32: HEIDI HARTMANN, The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism

33: Monique Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman

34: AUDRE LORDE, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

35: Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference

36: La Conciencia de la Mestiza

Part Seven: Environmentalism and Ecology

Notes

37: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

38: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

39: Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic

40: AL GORE, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

41: The Program of the Green Part of the Federal Republic of Germany

42: Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World

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The Environmental Debate: A Documentary History (Document 99 "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring 1962")
by Peninah Neimark, Peter Rhoades Mott. 323 pgs.

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This unique collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. These documents, ranging from government reports and court cases to the writings of naturalists, economists, and novelists, offer a broad array of perspectives about such major environmental issues as population growth, air pollution, land and water use, toxins and waste disposal, and the use of timber and mining resources. The historical introductions to each part and to each document provide a context for analyzing each document and will aid readers of the book to better understand the various debates over how, why and if our environment needs to be protected. Students and other interested in environmental problems are encouraged to consider all sides of these complex issues before drawing their own conclusions.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Significant Dates in American Environmental History

Introduction

Part I Foundations of American Environmental Thought and Action

Document 1: Biblical Views of Nature and Humanity

Document 2: Virgil's Pastoral View of Nature (c. 50 B.C.E.)

Document 3: Christopher Columbus Inventories the New World's Natural Resources (1493)

Document 4: Jean Ribaut Discovers the Natural Abundance of Terra Florida (1563)

Document 5: Baltasar de Obregon's Account of the Riches of New Mexico (1584)

Document 7: William Bradford on Life in the Wilderness (1620, 1621)

Document 8: Francis Bacon on Science and Technology (1629)

Document 9: Regulating the Herring Run in the Town of Plymouth (1637, 1638, 1639, 1662)

Document 10: Predator Control and Game Hunting Regulation in Rhode Island Colony (1639, 1646)

Document 11: Thomas Hobbes's Social Contract Theory (1651)

Document 13: William Penn Contracts to Set Aside Timbered Lands (1681)

Document 14: John Locke on Property and Labor (1690)

Document 15: John Ray on Gardens and Wilderness (1691)

Document 16: Jonathan Edwards on God and Nature (1739)

Document 17: Peter Kalm on Land Management (1753)

Document 18: William Blackstone's On the Rights of Things (1765-1769)

Document 19: John Bartram on Reclaiming Florida's Wetlands (1767)

Part II Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776-1840

Document 20: Thomas Jefferson on Agrarianism and Industrialization (1785, 1816)

Document 21: James Madison on Population and Property (1786, 1788)

Document 22: Philip Freneau's Noble Savage (1788)

Document 23: William Bartram on the Human Impact on the Environment (1791)

Document 24: Benjamin Rush on Saving the Sugar Maple (1791)

Document 25: The Founding Fathers on the Care of the Land (1793, 1818)

Document 26: Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

Document 27: Meriwether Lewis on the Slaughter of Buffaloes (1805)

Document 28: Act Establishing the First Federal Forest Reserve (1817)

Document 30: James Fenimore Cooper Laments the Disappearance of Unregulated Wilderness (1823)

Document 31: George Catlin's Proposal for a National Park (1832)

Document 32: Black Hawk on the Indians and the Land (1833)

Document 33: John James Audubon on the Senseless Destruction of Fish, Birds, and Quadrupeds (1833)

Part III The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840-1890

Document 34: Thomas Cole's "Lament of the Forest" (1841)

Document 35: John James Audubon on the Decimation of the Bison Herds (1843)

Document 36: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature (1844, 1884)

Document 37: William Cullen Bryant's Proposal for a Great Municipal Park (1844)

Document 38: Andrew Jackson Downing Talks about Public Parks and Gardens (1848)

Document 39: Swamp and Overflow Act (1850)

Document 40: The Shattuck Report's Recommendations for Sanitary Improvement (1850)

Document 41: Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town (1861)

Document 41: Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot In a Mill Town (1861)

Document 43: George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864)

Document 44: Henry David Thoreau on the Value of Living Things (1864)

Document 45: Act Granting Yo-Semite Valley to California (1864)

Document 46: the Citizens' Association of New York On Sewage and Disease (1865)

Document 47: John Muir on the Spirituality of Nature (1866)

Document 48: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux on Creating Parks to Serve the Public (1866, 1872)

Document 49: Charles Darwin on the Similarity between Humans and Other Animals (1871)

Document 50: Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)

Document 51: Mining Act (1872)

Document 52: Carl Schurz on the Need for Federal Forest Conservation (1877)

Document 53: Henry George on Land Development (1879)

Document 54: Act Establishing the Adirondack Forest Preserve (1885)

Document 55: American Ornithologists' Union's Model Law (1886)

Document 56: George Bird Grinnell and Cecelia Thaxter on the Audubon Society Cause (1886)

Document 57: Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club (1887)

Document 58: John Wesley Powell on the Lands of the Arid Region (1890)

Document 55: American Ornithologists' Union's Model Law (1886)

Document 59: Forest Reserve Act (1891)

Document 60: Frederick J. Turner on the Disappearance of the Frontier (1894)

Document 61: Rivers and Harbors Act (1899)

Document 62: Theodore Roosevelt on Forest Conservation and Land Reclamation (1901)

Document 63: Reclamation Act (1902)

Document 64: Upton Sinclair on the Adulteration of Processed Food (1906)

Document 65: Ellen Swallow Richards on Sanitation and Human Ecology (1907)

Document 66: Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (1907)

Document 67: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., on the Smoke Nuisance (1908)

Document 69: Richard Ballinger on the Development of the West (1909)

Document 70: Report of the National Conservation Commission (1909)

Document 71: WJ McGee on Conservation (1909)

Document 72: Jane Addams on Garbage (1910)

Document 73: Gifford Pinchot on Conservation and the National Interest (1911)

Part V Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920-1960

Document 74: Pennsylvania Coal Company V. Mahon Et Al. (1922)

Document 75: Village of Euclid Et Al. V. Ambler Realty Company (1926)

Document 76: Henry Beston on the Human Relationship with Nature (1928)

Document 77: Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Conservation of America's Forests (1930)

Document 78: Stuart Chase on Waste in the Machine Age (1931)

Document 79: Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink on the Dangers of Manufactured Products (1932)

Document 80: Luther Standing Bear on Native Americans and the Rights of Other Living Things (1933)

Document 81: Arthur Tansley on the Concept of the Ecosystem (1935)

Document 82: H. V. Harlan and M. L. Martini on the Loss of Genetic Diversity (1936)

Document 83: Lewis Mumford on Regional Planning (1938)

Document 84: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Document 85: Marjory Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades (1947)

Document 86: Roger Tory Peterson on Bird Population (1948)

Document 87: Fairfield Osborn on the Relatedness of All Living Things (1948)

Document 88: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic (1949)

Document 89: President's Materials Policy Commission on Economic Growth and Resource Policy (1952)

Document 90: Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., on Limits to Growth (1953)

Document 91: J. Robert Oppenheimer on the Use of Science (1953)

Document 93: Clean Air Act (1955)

Document 94: John Kenneth Galbraith Asks, "How Much Should a Country Consume?" (1958)

Document 95: David Brower Demands Support for the Wilderness Act (1959)

Part VI The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960-1980

Document 96: The Surgeon General's Report on Environmental Health (1960)

Document 97: Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne on the Balance of Nature (1960)

Document 98: Murray Bookchin on the Synthetic Environment (1962)

Document 99: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962)

Document 100: Stewart L. Udall on the Land Ethic (1963)

Document 101: John F. Kennedy on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Document 102: Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference V. Federal Power Commission (1965)

Document 103: California Land Conservation Act (1965) and Article XXVIII of the California Constitution (1966)

Document 104: Kenneth E. Boulding on the Spaceship Economy (1966)

Document 105: Lynn White, Jr., on Western Religions and the Environmental Crisis (1966)

Document 106: Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (1968)

Document 107: Garrett Hardin on Controlling Access to the Commons (1968)

Document 108: John Teal and Mildred Teal on the Productivity of the Salt Marsh (1969)

Document 109: Ian Mcharg on the Fitness of Ecosystems (1969)

Document 110: National Environmental Policy Act (1969)

Document 111: Richard Nixon on the Need For Environmental Regulation (1970)

Document 112: Clean Air Act Amendments (1970)

Document 113: Dennis Puleston on the Founding of the Environmental Defense Fund (1971)

Document 114: Barry Commoner on Nature, Man, and Technology (1971)

Document 115: Clean Water Act (1972)

Document 116: Christopher Stone Proposes Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972)

Document 117: Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)

Document 118: Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment (1972)

Document 119: Endangered Species Act (1973)

Document 120: Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975)

Document 121: Edward Abbey's the Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

Document 122: Greenpeace on the Need for Radical Action (1976)

Part VII Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980-2000

Document 123: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980)

Document 124: Mark Sagoff on the Public Interest (1981)

Document 125: Lester R. Brown on Building a Sustainable Society (1981)

Document 126: Julian L. Simon on Population Growth (1981)

Document 127: Coastal Barrier Resources Act (1981)

Document 128: Arne Naess on Deep Ecology (1982, 1984)

Document 129: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1983)

Document 130: Bernard Cohen on Nuclear Energy and Risk Assessment (1983)

Document 131: Bob Graham on Restoring the Kissimmee River--Lake Okeechobee--Everglades Ecosystem (1983)

Document 132: Edward O. Wilson on the Need for Conservation and a Conservation Ethic (1984, 1998)

Document 134: United Nations Convention (1985) and Protocol (1987) on Ozone Depletion

Document 135: United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice on Toxic Waste and Race (1987)

Document 136: Dixy Lee Ray Asks, "Who Speaks for Science?" (1990)

Document 137: Roger Smith on Industry and the Environment (1990)

Document 138: California Air Resources Board Lowers Its Vehicle Emissions Standards (1990, 1996)

Document 139: John P. Holdren on Energy and Human Well-Being (1990)

Document 140: Barry Lopez on a Sense of Place (1990)

Document 141: Albert Gore on the Ecological Perspective (1992)

Document 142: United Nations Convention (1992) and Protocol (1997) on Climate Change

Document 143: Carl Safina on the Decline of Fishes (1995)

Document 144: Edward Tenner on Shifting Liability (1996)

Document 145: Jane Lubchenco on Environmental Issues for the Twenty-First Century (1997)

Document 146: Jeremy Rifkin on Biotechnology and the Environment (1998)

Appendix I: Landmarks in U.S. Environmental Legislation

Appendix II: Major International Agreements Relating to the Environment

Notes

Glossary

Further Readings

Index

About the Editors

Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues
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By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature ("The Marginal World," an excerpt from Carson's The Edge of the Sea, begins on p. 151)
by Alberto Manguel. 373 pgs.

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From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the perceptions of the Keen scientific eye have been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow. Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over three dozen works from the past three centuries.

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Introduction

Landscape

The Falkland Islands

La Pampa

The Atlantic Forest

The Falls of Niagara

Fauna and Flora of Nevada

Shooting the Rapids in a Batteau

Heavenly Place

Three Natural Disasters

Hoyle's Mouth

Prophetic Autumn

A Ramble in May

An October Diary

The Encantadas

Nightwatch

Crusoe's Island

Journal 1866

Flowery Tuscany

The Marginal World

Birds

Into the Amazon

Birds of Siberia

The Wild Geese of Wyndy Goul

The Crows

Why Birds Sing

Bird Lists

Bird Watching

The Temples of the Hills

King Penguins

Beasts

The Cat

Real Life of the Beaver

The Bonte-Quagga

The Narwhal

Monkeys

Insects and Fish

Three Strokes of a Dagger

The Secret of the Formicary

Butterflies

12,000,000 Cod

Common Fish of an Indian Garden

Stars of the Earth

Sources

Author Biographies

Index
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The Compassionate Conservative: Assuming Responsibility and Respecting Human Dignity (discussion of Silent Spring begins on p. 71)
by Joseph J. Jacobs. 278 pgs.

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In an effort to create a risk-free society, our government has put regulations & entitlement programs ahead of sound planning, with disastrous results. Challenges the assumption that liberals have a monopoly on compassion. The true measure of compassion lies not in the intensity of emotion but in the public good that accompanies an act.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Roots of the Problem

Chapter 1: The Tyranny of Words

Chapter 2: The Arrogant Elitists

Chapter 3: The Politics of Envy

Chapter 4: The Myth of a Risk-Free Society

Chapter 5: The Myth of Infinite Resources

Part Two: The Consequences

Chapter 6: The Quality of Life and the Environmental Religion

Chapter 7: Who is More Important?

Chapter 8: Education

Chapter 9: Junk Science

Chapter 10: Social Engineering: Mythical Compassion

Part Three: Toward Solutions

Chapter 11: Morality in Business

Chapter 12: Energy, the Staff of Life

Chapter 13: The Freudian Slip

Chapter 14: The Tyranny of Words: Redux

Epilogue

Addendum: Conversions

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The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979 (Chap. 5 "From the Affluent Society to the Poverty of Afluence, 1960–1962: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson")
by Daniel Horowitz. 340 pgs.

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A wide--ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence.

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The Anxieties of Affluence

Introduction

1: World War II and the Campaign for a Democratic Standard of Living

2: Ernest Dichter and George Katona

3: David M. Potter's People of Plenty

4: John Kenneth Galbraith, Vance Packard, and Betty Friedan

5: Paul Goodman, Oscar Lewis, Michael Harrington, and Rachel Carson

6: Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr., and Paul R. Ehrlich

7: Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Robert Bellah

8: Jimmy Carter, “energy and the Crisis of Confidence”

Epilogue: The Response to Affluence at the End of the Century

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index
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America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center: A Documentary History (an excerpt from Carson's 1963 testimony before the Ribicoff Committee begins on p. 53)
by Peter B. Levy. 316 pgs.

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Unlike other works, America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives, providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the manifestos of both the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Americans for Freedom, the most prominent radical and conservative student groups of the time. Further, in addition to selections by such individuals as Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, it contains pieces by figures often associated with other times, such as Reverend Billy Graham and Ronald Reagan. Seeking to immerse readers in the decade's key issues in a balanced manner, the book covers the civil rights movement, Vietnam, the counterculture, and the women's movement and looks at some of the 1960's most memorable moments.

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Introduction

Chapter One: The 1950s: Happy Days and Their Discontents

Chapter Two: The End of American Innocence

Chapter Three: The Black Freedom Struggle

Chapter Four: The Great Society and Its Critics

Chapter Five: Vietnam

Chapter Six: American Culture at a Crossroads

Chapter Seven: Women's Liberation and Other Movements

Chapter Eight: Can the Center Hold?

Chapter Nine: Looking Backward

Appendix: The 1960s: A Statistical Profile

Suggested Readings

Index

About the Editor
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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1925-1993: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook (section on Rachel Carson begins on p. 72)
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 491 pgs.

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This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers, such as Rachel Carson and Helen Broinowski Caldicott; and women with religious careers, such as Dorothy Day and Pauli Murray. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources.

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Introduction

Ti-Grace Atkinson

Emily Greene Balch

Clare Boothe Luce

Rachel Louise Carson

Margaret Chase Smith

Mary Daly

Jessie Daniel Ames

Andrea Dworkin

Geraldine Ann Ferraro

Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980), Member of Congress, Defender of Liberal Democratic Principles, Advocate for Women's Equity

Margaret Higgins Sanger

Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968), Advocate for the Blind, Socialist, and Feminist

Aimee Kennedy Semple Mcpherson

Catharine A. Mackinnon

Robin Evonne Morgan

Pauli Murray

Leonora O'Reilly

Frances Perkins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Patricia Scott Schroeder

Phyllis Stewart Schlafly

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Alyce Faye Wattleton

Ann Willis Richards

Martha Wright Griffiths

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Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists (Carson biography begins on p. 137)
by Keir B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, Lorne F. Hammond. 942 pgs.

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Casting a wide net, this volume provides personal and professional information on some 445 American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists, who lived from the late 15th century to the late 20th century. It includes explorers who published works on the natural history of North America, conservationists, ecologists, environmentalists, wildlife management specialists, park planners, national park administrators, zoologists, botanists, natural historians, geographers, geologists, academics, museum scientists and administrators, military personnel, travellers, government officials, political figures and writers and artists concerned with the environment. Some of the subjects are well known. The accomplishments of others are little known.

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How Rachel Carson Helped Save the Brown Pelican: One of America's Most Charismatic Coastal Birds Is Thriving Again, Thanks in Part to a Biologist-Turned-Author, in National Wildlife
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