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Silent Spring Revolution John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

Douglas Brinkley

New York Times With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. During the early Cold...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Roger described it as an expansive 800page history of the modern American environmental movement that captures how quickly environmental damage came to a head in the 1960s70s.

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I got a huge 800-page history of the modern American environmental movement by the American historian Douglas Brinkley called Silent Spring Revolution.

— Episode: When Great Power Conflict and Climate Ac...

Episode: When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Colli...

Roger described it as an expansive 800page history of the modern American environmental movement that captures how quickly environmental damage came to a head in the 1960s70s.

"

I got a huge 800-page history of the modern American environmental movement by the American historian Douglas Brinkley called Silent Spring Revolution.

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