The environment of the people. Chad Montrie: The myth of Silent Spring. Rethinking the origins of American environmentalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018, 200p

Book review of Chad Montrie: The myth of Silent Spring. Rethinking the origins of American environmentalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018, 200pvol.30International audienceIn his latest book, The myth of Silent Spring, historian Chad Montrie picks up on an argument he already developed in A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States (Montrie 2011). In this short book, Montrie returns to the founding myth story of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (Carson 1962) in order to discuss in more detail the origins of American environmentalism by exploring the ways in which "working people experienced environmental problems" (5) and how they, and the labor unions for instance, addressed these problems "beginning at least as early as the 1940s" (6)