Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World Audiobook

Quotes

• ”Cassandra Campbell offers an easy-on-the-ears reading. Her voice virtually revels in the women’s accomplishments and shares their frustration with outdated thinking, primarily male.”

  — AudioFile

• “Inspirational…tales of four women who became moral voices in the 1960s through a passion for truth and a perseverance that defied expectations.”

  — Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

• “Portrays the world we know through four extraordinary women who did so much to shape it.”

  — Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author

• “Vivid.”

  — New Yorker

• “Superb…Barnet has added greatly to our understanding of the way human beings with a vision can change society for the better by pursuing their dreams.”

  — St. Louis Post-Dispatch

• “[A] highly readable collective biography…[Barnet] uniquely separates their voices from the feminist movement of the period, arguing that, instead, they were trying to save endangered aspects of our culture.”

  — Library Journal

• “Drawing on the many ‘superb individual biographies’ of these women, who did not know one another, Barnet offers an overview of their lives to point up…‘the extent to which these four pioneers were channeling the anxieties of their particular moment.’”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A fascinating cohort of four brilliant, impassioned women who singly and collectively transformed the way we view life on this planet.”

  — Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature

• “At a moment in history that will likely be remembered for the hard-won consequences of revelatory truths, Barnet’s magnificent book is a stunning reminder that women are extraordinary—and character is everything.”

  — Jessica Helfand, author of Design: The Invention of Desire