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Silent spring & other writings on the environment / Rachel Carson ; Sandra Steingraber, editor.

by Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964, author.

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[New York, NY] : The Library of America, [2018]

Carson, Rachel, 1907-1964 -- Correspondence.

Pesticides -- Environmental aspects.

Environmental ethics.

Pesticides -- Toxicology.

Pesticides and wildlife.

Insect pests -- Biological control.

Wildlife conservation.

Marine ecology.

9781598535600 (hardback)

Library of America ; 307.

xliii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

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.

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

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