| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.3

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The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. By Mark Hamilton Lytle. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. x, 277 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $23.)

This book is part of Oxford's New Narratives in American History series based on vivid biographical portraits of important people and their place in the history of their time. Mark Hamilton Lytle presents the life of Rachel Carson by interweaving her works with the events of the period from 1907 to 1964. He sets Carson's story in the context of the flow of seasons. This is a particularly appropriate device for her because of her love of nature and the interconnection of her writing with her life and aspirations.

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