McCarthy Center Programs
History of the 1960’s Environmental Revolution: The Roles of Rachel Carson & Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
4-11-2022
Sponsoring Department(s)
McCarthy Center, Saint John’s President’s Office
Abstract
Monday’s lecture was Brinkley’s first in advance of his new work. The event was sponsored through a collaboration between the SJU President’s Office and the Eugene McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement.
“My book will be out in November, but I did want to kind of test run some ideas,” said Brinkley, a best-selling author, 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.
“This seemed to be a perfect place. I’ve read about Saint John’s and Saint Ben’s so often – whether it’s from studying issues of Indigenous people to studying (SJU alum and former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate) Eugene McCarthy. I haven’t been here before. But I did my doctorate at Georgetown, so I’ve known a lot of people who have gone here over the years. This seemed like a great opportunity to visit, though I wish I could have come when there was a football game on.”
Recommended Citation
Brinkley, Douglas, "History of the 1960’s Environmental Revolution: The Roles of Rachel Carson & Presidents Kennedy and Johnson" (2022). McCarthy Center Programs. 28.
https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/mccarthy_center_lectures/28