Please join us for a very special presentation featuring New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian – Dr. Douglas Brinkley as he discusses his latest book Silent Spring Revolution.

The book chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon.

Mr. Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University, a CNN Presidential Historian and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. He has received seven honorary doctorates in American Studies. Six of his books were named NY Times “Notable Books of the Year” and seven became NY Times bestsellers.

Other revered works include:

• The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 2007, which received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award
• Biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Walter Cronkite
• American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race which recieved the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction  
• The Nixon Tapes, 2016, which won the Arthur S. Link – Warren F. Kuehl Prize.
• He also received a Grammy Award in 2017 as co-producer of Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (Best Jazz Ensemble).

In 2021, the Garden Club of America awarded Brinkley the Frances K. Hutchison Medal for his distinguished service to conservation efforts.

With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, Douglas Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can (and must) save the planet from ruin.

Registration

This event is free, but advanced registration is required!

Questions?

For more information, please call Friends of the Bay at 516-922-6666 or the Land Alliance at 516-922-1028.