General Histories   [on reserve at Walter Library]

• 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]
• Whorton, James. 1974. Before "Silent Spring": Pesticides and Public Health in pre-DDT America. [Magrath RA1270.P4 W45, Law RA1270.P4 W54, storage]

Historical Sources (available in 1963)    [on reserve at Walter Library]

• 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 ]
• CBS Reports, "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring," [audio CD on reserve at Walter] -- Download wma-format files: Part 1 [19MB] | Part 2 [28MB].
  => See Guide of interviewed speakers.
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• Lavine, Irvin and Zimmerman, O.T. 1946. DDT: Killer of Killers. Rochestor NH: Record Press. [Magrath SB952.D2 Z5]
• [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. [Wilson, Forestry]