TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mart,Michelle
TI  - Pesticides, a love story: America's enduring embrace of dangerous chemicals 
T2  - CultureAmerica
SN  - 9780700621286 (hardback : alkaline paper)
AV  - SB950.2.A1 M37 2015
U1  - 363.738/498 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Lawrence, Kansas
PB  - University Press of Kansas
KW  - Pesticides
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Agricultural chemicals
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
KW  - NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Falling in Love : The Golden Age of Synthetic Pesticides -- Trouble in Paradise : The USDA and the Rise of Critical Voices -- Breakup? : The Cultural Impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring -- Foreign Affairs : How Pesticides Could Help Americans Feed the World and Win a War -- The Twenty-Year Itch : Activists, Experts, and the Regulatory Era -- Love Is Blind : Chemical Disasters at Home and Abroad -- Recommitment : Endocrine Disruptors, GMOs, and Organic Food
N2  - "A provocative cultural history of pesticides and their controversial use and depiction in the United States. Mart contends that--despite the sharp concerns raised by environmentalists and others since the appearance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring--Americans have not only never resolved the inherent tension between costs and benefits presented by these chemicals, but have actually grown ever more attached to them with the passage of time"--
ER  -