Part I, titled “Protoenvironmentalists (1945-1959) explains this context.
His account covers what he and other historians call the “Long Sixties,” from 1960 – 1973, and his treatment reaches back to the Truman administration, which did little for conservation, and forward to the present, occasionally reflecting on how earlier environmental politics played out in following decades. The context of the conservation story told in Silent Spring Revolution was certainly different than the earlier episodes, and Brinkley emphasizes this. In these big books Brinkley tells stories that will help 21 st century Americans understand how and why their environment is where it is today In Silent Spring Revolution, Brinkley widens his lens to include Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in a single book pointing out that while these presidencies are not generally considered as historically significant in the realm of conservation as the Roosevelt’s, they made important contributions and, at least collectively, should be. Roosevelt and the Land of America, focusing on the conservation and public lands records of the second President Roosevelt’s administration, a side of FDR’s achievements less covered in biographies and histories than his battles against the Great Depression and his leadership in World War II.
Next, he wrote Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. In The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America he recounts how conservation emerged during the progressive era and was vigorously advanced during TR’s administration. One of historian Douglas Brinkley’s “fortes,” as he puts it, is presidential history, and one project has been to focus on the conservation and environmental records of presidential players in 20 th century America.
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening. Douglas Brinkley, Silent Spring Revolution: John F.
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