The Great Environmental Awakening with Douglas Brinkley

Don Boozer, the Literature Department Manager and Ohio Center for the Book Coordinator at Cleveland Public Library, steps in as Page Count’s guest host to interview author and historian Douglas Brinkley. During a discussion that covers the burning Cuyahoga River, the conservation policies of past American presidents, environmental activism, and his latest book, Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening, Brinkley sheds light on the history of U.S. environmentalism while offering hope for the future.

 

Mentioned in this episode:

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (2009)
• Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America (2016)
• Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022)
• The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom, 1879–1960 (2011)
• 1969 Cuyahoga River Fire Coverage from the National Park Service and Cleveland Historical
• Lake Erie information from the Environmental Protection Agency
• Seuss, The Lorax, and Lake Erie
• National Park Service: Ohio
• Douglas Brinkley’s Official Website
• 1969 Time article about the Cuyahoga River
• 1960s Plain Dealer photograph of pollution in Cuyahoga River
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park
• Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge

Photo credit: Moore Huffman

 

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