What A Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring by Priscilla Coit Murphy

What A Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

Priscilla Coit Murphy

254 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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In 1962 the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sparked widespread public debate on the issue of pesticide abuse and environmental degradation. The discussion permeated the entire print and electronic media system of mid-twentieth-century...

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