Gentle Subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nationincluding the farm block and the agricultural chemical industryand 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. 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 women's struggle to find a voice in society.