Remember that we are situating our simulation in 1963(!).
The following books (ON RESERVE at Walter Library) are good general guides. They may help you sketch the general position of your character and find relevant original literature by individuals:
- Graham, Frank, Jr. 1970. Since Silent Spring. [ Wilson QH75 .G68 / MN Lib Access Ctr 632.95 G76 9ZAR07D39S09TN2 ] (As orientation, all characters are mentioned here, however briefly.)
- Bosso, Christopher J. 1987. Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue. [Wilson KF3959.B67]
- Dunlap, Thomas. 1981. DDT: Scientists, Citizens and Public Policy. [632.55 D921]
- Mellanby, Kenneth. 1992. The DDT Story. Unwin Brothers. [SB952.D2 M44]
- Russell, Edmund. 2001. War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring. [Walter QH545.C48 R87]
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships.
Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships; a symposium by George C. Decker [and others] March 10, 1961. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (Pub. #897), 1961. [TC Ent/Fish/Wild Library 632.55 N2132 ]
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Pest Control and Wildlife Relationships. Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (Pub. #920-A, B, C), 1962-63. [ TC Ent/Fish/Wild 632.55 N2132p ]
- President's Science Advisory Committee, 1963. The Use of Pesticides. Sci2/P43. [ TC Law Lib. US Docs. Pr35.8:Sci2/p43 ; Magrath SB959 .U57 1963 ]
- "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring," CBS Reports [audio CD on reserve at Walter] -- Download wma-format files: Part 1 [19MB] | Part 2 [28MB]
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- Lavine, Irvin and Zimmerman, O.T. 1946. DDT: Killer of Killers. Rochestor NH: Record Press. [Magrath SB952.D2 Z5]
- Whorton, James. 1974. Before "Silent Spring": Pesticides and Public Health in pre-DDT America. [Magrath RA1270.P4 W45, Law RA1270.P4 W54, storage]
- [not on reserve] Leary, James, William Fishbein, and Lawrence Salter. 1946. DDT and the Insect Problem. New York: .
Other Relevant Articles
Russell, Edmund. 1999. "The Strange Career of DDT: Experts, Federal Capacity and Environmentalism in World War II" Technology and Culture 40:770-796. [UMLib online]
Gunter, Valerie J. and Craig K. Harris. 1998. "Noisy Winter: the DDT Controversy in the Years Before Silent Spring," Rural Sociology 63: 179-198. [Magrath, Wilson]
Lear, Linda. 1992. "Bombshell in Beltsville: The USDA and the Challenge of Silent Spring," Agricultural History 66:151-170 [Magrath]
Wang, Zuoyue. 1997. "Responding to Silent Spring: Scientists, Popular Science Communication and Environmental Policy in the Kennedy Years," Science Communication 19: 141-163 [Wilson]
Buhs, Joshua. 2002. "Dead Cows on a Georgia Field: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of the Post-World War II American Pesticide Controversies," Environmental History 7:99-121. [Wilson, Forestry]
Buhs, Joshua. 2004. The Fire Ant Wars. University of Chicago Press.
Buhs, Joshua. 2002. "The Fire Ant Wars: Nature and Science in the Pesticide Controversies of the Late Twentieth Century", Isis 93: 377-400. [UMLib online]
Buhs, Joshua. 2002. "Dead Cows on a Georgia Field: Mapping the cultural landscape of the post-World War II American pesticide controversies." Environmental History
last revised Nov. 16, 2004
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