![]() ![]() As Brinkley relates, when Lyndon Johnson came into office, he took action a step further. Silent Spring inspired a campaign to reduce the use of the toxic pesticides that were entering the food chain and killing birds by the millions, and Carson’s works were favorites in the Kennedy White House. Rightful Heritage chronicled “FDR’s enthusiasm for preserving treasured landscapes in every state.” Here, the author charts the transformation of conservation into environmentalism, a change of understanding and emphasis that, in his view, owes disproportionately to popular books by Rachel Carson. The great presidential conservationist, of course, was Theodore Roosevelt, subject of Brinkley’s The Wilderness Warrior. ![]() ![]() Brinkley continues his cycles of histories in which presidents engage with the environment. ![]()
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