Silent spring & other writings on the environment

Silent spring, together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of Rachel Carson.

Uniform Title: Works. Selections
Main Author: Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964,
Other Authors: Steingraber, Sandra,, Darling, Lois,, Darling, Louis,, Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: [New York, NY] : The Library of America, [2018]
Physical Description: xliii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Series: Library of America ; 307.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Silent spring
  • Other writings on the environment.
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction by Sandra Steingraber
  • Silent spring
  • Other writings on the environment. To Harold Lynch, July 15, 1945
  • To Shirley Briggs, September 28, 1946
  • To Raymond J. Brown, October 15, 1946
  • To Edwin Way Teale, February 2, 1947
  • To Maria Carson, September 21, 1947
  • To Shirley Briggs, September 29, 1947
  • Mr. Day's dismissal, April 22, 1953
  • To Fon Boardman, c. September 1953
  • To Dorothy Freeman, September 28, 1953
  • To Dorothy Freeman, January 21, 1954
  • The real world around us, Theta Sigma Phi Matrix Table Dinner, Columbus, Ohio, April 21, 1954
  • To Dorothy Freeman, June 1, 1954
  • To Edwin Way Teale, August 16, 1955
  • Help your child to wonder, July 1956
  • To Stanley and Dorothy Freeman, August 8, 1956
  • To Curtis and Nellie Lee Bok, December 12, 1956
  • To DeWitt Wallace, January 27, 1958
  • To Dorothy Freeman, February 1, 1958
  • To Marie Rodell, February 2, 1958
  • To E.B. White, February 3, 1958
  • To Dorothy Freeman, June 12, 1958
  • To Edwin May Teale, October 12, 1958
  • To Marjorie Spock, November 17, 1958
  • To Marjorie Spock, December 4, 1958
  • To William Shawn, February 14, 1959
  • "Vanishing Americans," April 10, 1959
  • To Beverly Knecht, April 12, 1959
  • To R.D. Radeleff, May 20, 1959
  • To J.I. McClurkin, September 28, 1959
  • To Grace Barstow Murphy, November 16, 1959
  • To Dorothy Freeman, November 19, 1959
  • To Morton S. Biskind, December 3, 1959
  • To Dorothy Freeman, c. December 7, 1959
  • To Marjorie Spock and Polly Richards, April 12, 1960
  • To C. Girard Davidson, June 8, 1960
  • To Marjorie Spock, September 27, 1960
  • To Dorothy Freeman, October 12, 1960
  • To Clarence Cottam, January 4, 1961
  • To Paul Brooks, June 26, 1961
  • To Dorothy Freeman, January 6, 1962
  • To Dorothy Freeman, January 23, 1962
  • To Frank E. Egler, January 29, 1962
  • To Lois Crisler, February 8, 1962
  • To Dorothy Freeman, April 5, 1962
  • To Dorothy Freeman, May 20, 1962
  • Of man and the stream of time, Scripps College, Claremont, California, June 12, 1962
  • Form letter to correspondents, August 2, 1962
  • On the reception of Silent Spring, December 2, 1962
  • Speech to the Women's National Press Club, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1962
  • Speech accepting the Schweitzer Medal, Animal Welfare Institute, Washington, D.C., January 7, 1963
  • Speech to the Garden Club of America, New York, January 8, 1963
  • To Walter P. Nickell, January 14, 1963
  • To Dorothy Freeman, March 27, 1963
  • To Dorothy Freeman, April 1, 1963
  • She started it all-here's her reaction, May 19, 1963
  • Environmental hazards: control of pesticides and other chemical poisons, Statement before the Subcommittee on Reorganization and International Organizations of the Committee on Government Operations, Washington, D.C., June 4, 1963
  • To Dorothy Freeman, September 10, 1963
  • The pollution of our environment, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Permanente Medical Group Seventh Annual Symposium, "Man against himself," San Francisco, California, October 18, 1963
  • To Dorothy Freeman, October 21, 1963
  • To Dorothy Freeman, October 26, 1963
  • To Walter C. Bauer, November 12, 1963
  • To C.J. Briejèr, December 2, 1963
  • Speech accepting the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society, New York, December 3, 1963
  • Chronology
  • Notes on the texts
  • Notes
  • Index.