Visionary Women

Andrea Barnet’s Visionary Women explores how Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters spearheaded the modern progressive movement. Winner of The Green Prize for Sustainable Literature A Finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for Biography This is the story of four influential women who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power