 A "New York Times" reviewer states that "Blessed Unrest" is "about a movement that no one has noticed, not even the people involved".For this reviewer, the "high point of the book is Hawken's excellent critique of the chemical industry's attack on Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" in 1962", at a time when she was fighting cancer.Hawken also tells the stories of other people who have endured hardship and difficulty as they stood up to large corporations.