Book Talk and Signing with Douglas Brinkley

Join us as we hear from Douglas Brinkley, renowned presidential biographer and historian, about his latest book, Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening. Douglas Brinkley is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is the history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair.

This event is co-sponsored by Kent Memorial Library, Cornwall Conservation Trust, Housatonic Valley Association, Kent Land Trust, Northwest CT Land Conservancy, Steep Rock Association and Warren Land Trust. Books can be preordered right here (please remember to mention “pickup at event” in the instructions field when you preorder the book.) or will be available for purchase at the event.