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- ISBN
- 1416594833
- EAN
- 9781416594833
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Yellow Dirt: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
- Artist
- Pasternak, Judy
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1416594833
ISBN-13
9781416594833
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102893538
Product Key Features
Book Title
Yellow Dirt : a Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Mining, Earth Sciences / Mineralogy, Military / Nuclear Warfare, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Radiation, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-009664
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Chilling. Has the cumulative power of scrupulous truth-telling and the value of old-style investigative reportage."--Laura Miller, Salon, "This book will break your heart. Not only an enormous achievement literally, a piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism it also illustrates exactly what careful, painstaking, and risk-taking reporting should do: Show us what we've become as a people, and sharpen our vision of who we, the people, ought to become."-- The Christian Science Monitor, "One of those stories that makes us believe all over again in journalism, in its power to bring truth to light." -Harvard'sNieman Narrative Digest, "Studded with vivid character sketches and evocative descriptions of the American landscape, Pasternak's scarifying account of uranium mining's disastrous consequences often reads like a novel...does justic to the ethical and historial ambiguities while crafting a narrative of exemplary clarity."--Los Angeles Times, "A window into a dark chapter of modern history that still reverberates today.Transporting readers into a little-known country-within-a-country, award-winning journalist Judy Pasternak gives rare voice to Navajo perceptions of the world, their own complicated involvement with uranium mining, and their political coming-of-age. A work of the highest quality journalism, an exposÉ made possible by meticulous research... She has taken a large cast of characters, a bulging list of corporations and government agencies, and a scientific subject and managed to unite them in a story that the average reader can comprehend."--Stacy Rae Brownlie, BookBrowse, "Disturbing and illuminating. Pasternak evokes the magnitude of a nuclear disaster that continues to reverberate. Unfolds like true crime, where real-life heroes and villains play dynamic roles in a drama that escalates page by page. Eye-opening and riveting, "Yellow Dirt" gives a sobering glimpse into our atomic past and adds a critical voice to the debate about resurrecting America's nuclear industry."--The Washington Post, "Disturbing and illuminating. Pasternak evokes the magnitude of a nuclear disaster that continues to reverberate. Unfolds like true crime, where real-life heroes and villains play dynamic roles in a drama that escalates page by page. Eye-opening and riveting, "Yellow Dirt" gives a sobering glimpse into our atomic past and adds a critical voice to the debate about resurrecting America's nuclear industry."-- The Washington Post, "This book is a masterwork. It is journalism at its very best--a story told fully and eloquently. A story that everyone should know."--Michael Connelly, author ofNine Dragons, "Chilling. Has the cumulative power of scrupulous truth-telling and the value of old-style investigative reportage."--Laura Miller , Salon, "One of those stories that makes us believe all over again in journalism, in its power to bring truth to light." -Harvard's Nieman Narrative Digest, "This compelling and compassionate book could not be more timely. A gripping story of the betrayal of the Navajos, it comes at a time where once again the human costs of energy production are slighted and both the government and corporations ride roughshod over the least powerful."-Richard White, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship, and Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University, "Studded with vivid character sketches and evocative descriptions of the American landscape, Pasternak's scarifying account of uranium mining's disastrous consequences often reads like a novel...does justic to the ethical and historial ambiguities while crafting a narrative of exemplary clarity."-- Los Angeles Times, "An astounding book. Judy Pasternak has dug deeply into the archives and into the ground itself to uncover the real story behind one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War on American soil. With her dogged pursuit of the facts and an elegant prose style, Pasternak elevates investigative journalism into the realm of literature." -- Tom Zoellner, author ofUranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World, "This book is a masterwork. It is journalism at its very best-a story told fully and eloquently. A story that everyone should know." -Michael Connelly, author of Nine Dragons, "An astounding book. Judy Pasternak has dug deeply into the archives and into the ground itself to uncover the real story behind one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War on American soil. With her dogged pursuit of the facts and an elegant prose style, Pasternak elevates investigative journalism into the realm of literature." -- Tom Zoellner, author of Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World, "This book will break your heart. Not only an enormous achievement literally, a piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism it also illustrates exactly what careful, painstaking, and risk-taking reporting should do: Show us what wers"ve become as a people, and sharpen our vision of who we, the people, ought to become."--The Christian Science Monitor, "This compelling and compassionate book could not be more timely. A gripping story of the betrayal of the Navajos, it comes at a time where once again the human costs of energy production are slighted and both the government and corporations ride roughshod over the least powerful." -Richard White, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Recipient of a Macarthur Fellowship, and Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Stanford University
Dewey Decimal
979.1004/9726
Synopsis
This investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history. Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed Yellow Dirt , "will break your heart. An enormous achievement--literally, a piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism--illustrates exactly what reporting should do: Show us what we've become as a people, and sharpen our vision of who we, the people, ought to become" ( The Christian Science Monitor ). From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people as the Navajos worked, unprotected, in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which borders Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) continued grazing their animals on sagebrush flats riddled with uranium that had been blasted from the ground. They built their houses out of chunks of uranium ore, inhaled radioactive dust borne aloft from the waste piles the mining companies had left behind, and their children played in the unsealed mines themselves. Ten years after the mines closed, the cancer rate on the reservation shot up and some babies began to be born with crooked fingers that fused together into claws as they grew. Government scientists filed complaints about the situation with the government, but were told it was a mess too expensive to clean up. Judy Pasternak exposed this story in a prizewinning Los Angeles Times series. Her work galvanized both a congressman and a famous prosecutor to clean the sites and get reparations for the tribe. Yellow Dirt is her powerful chronicle of both the scandal of neglect and the Navajos' fight for justice.
LC Classification Number
E99.N3P378 2011
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