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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

byKeith O'Brien

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical’s deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today. Using biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, Paradise Falls moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing Paradise Falls within biography & autobiography and history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

352

ISBN

9780593318430