{"product_id":"the-gentle-subversive-rachel-carson-silent-spring-and-the-rise-of-the-environmental-movement-new-narratives-in-american-history","title":"The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson  Silent Spring  and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (New Narratives in American History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel Carsons Silent Spring 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 The Gentle Subversive  Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact life of Carson  illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carsons 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 childrens 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  Under a Sea Wind  the incredible success of The Sea Around Us (a New York Times Bestseller for over a year)  and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her \"poison book\": Silent Spring. The author contends that despite Carsons 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  and 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 against cancer. Succinct and engaging  The Gentle Subversive is a story of success  celebrity  controversy  and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in womens struggle to find a voice in society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964692361269,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195172469","price":32.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195172461.jpg?v=1770475398","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gentle-subversive-rachel-carson-silent-spring-and-the-rise-of-the-environmental-movement-new-narratives-in-american-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}