![]() ![]() Stern excoriated Brinkley for not having read or drawn upon Montrie’s Myth which offers a focus on class and race that fleshes out the environment movement and its history in ways that much analysis centered on Silent Spring and Rachel Carson has not.īut Montrie offers a more restrained and reasonable critique of the “Myth” of Rachel Carson that is made up of several key components, none of which seeks to dethrone Carson as one of the most influential environmentalists in American history. It took a recent, needlessly nasty review by Scott Stern in the New Republic of Douglas Brinkley’s Silent Spring Revolutionto call it to my attention. I am sorry I somehow missed it when it was first published in 2018. Chad Montrie, The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism (University of California Press, 2018).Ĭhad Montrie’s The Myth of Silent Spring is essential reading for environmentalists, not just environmental historians. ![]()
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