Carson insisted that Houghton Mifflin buy libel insurance and that her book contract specify a limit on her personal monetary liability. The book was also reviewed in detail by the New Yorker magazine, in which it first appeared as a serial. At her request the book's publisher, Houghton Mifflin, had lawyers review the manuscript line by line before publication.
A many-fronted public-relations counterattack on Carson was mounted by corporations displeased by her book.Ĭarson knew that her book would come under fire. Silent Spring provoked a response that was also the first of its kind, as partly described in the 1962 article "'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer" by John M. Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was the first meticulously referenced, book-length attack by a scientist on the practices of an entire industry, in this case the pesticide industry. Lee was a staff writer for the New York Times at the time that he wrote "'Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer." INTRODUCTION "' Silent Spring' is Now Noisy Summer." New York Times ( July 22, 1962).Ībout the Author: John M.
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