The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback

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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback
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  • The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy - Paperback

$22.39
$22.39

by Anna Clark (Author)

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Winner of the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the Gross Award for Literature
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Book Journalism

"It's hard to overstate how important Anna Clark's new book is... A taut, riveting and comprehensive account." --USA Today

When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.

Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city's water supply to a source that corroded Flint's aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were dismissed: the residents of Flint, mostly poor and African American, were not seen as credible, even in matters of their own lives.

It took eighteen months of activism by city residents and a band of dogged outsiders to force the state to admit that the water was poisonous. By that time, twelve people had died and Flint's children had suffered irreparable harm. The long battle for accountability and a humane response to this man-made disaster has only just begun.

In the first full account of this American tragedy, Anna Clark's The Poisoned City recounts the gripping story of Flint's poisoned water through the people who caused it, suffered from it, and exposed it. It is a chronicle of one town, but could also be about any American city, all made precarious by the neglect of infrastructure and the erosion of democratic decision making. Places like Flint are set up to fail--and for the people who live and work in them, the consequences can be fatal.

Author Biography

Anna Clark is a journalist living in Detroit. Her writing has appeared in ELLE Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, Next City, and other publications. Anna edited A Detroit Anthology, a Michigan Notable Book, and she had been a writer-in-residence in Detroit public schools as part of the InsideOut Literary Arts program. She has also been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. Her books include The Poisoned City and Literary Luminaries.

Number of Pages: 336
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: July 23, 2019

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