And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

by Linda Lear and Associate Professor Craig Waddell Ph.D.

Craig Waddell presents essays investigating Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book, Silent Spring. In his foreword, Paul Brooks, Carson's editor at Houghton Mifflin, describes the process that resulted in Silent Spring. In an afterword, Linda Lear, Carson's recent biographer, recalls the end of Carson's life and outlines the attention that Carson's book and Carson herself received from scholars and biographers, attention that focused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809322196
• ISBN13: 9780809322190
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"