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Author:

Clark, Anna (Anna Leigh)

Title:

The poisoned city : Flint's water and the American urban tragedy / Anna Clark.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Metropolitan BooksHenry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

305 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Drinking water--Health aspects--Health aspects--Flint.--Flint.
Drinking water--Lead content--Flint.--Flint.
Health risk assessment--Flint.--Flint.
Heavy metals--Toxicity testing--Flint.--Flint.
Flint (Mich.)--Environmental conditions.
Flint (Mich.)--Politics and government.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-291) and index.

Contents:

Prologue -- Part I: Taught by thirst. The well -- Corrosion -- Revelations -- Saturation -- Part II: Divination. Alchemy -- Citizen/science -- Meditations in an emergency -- Blood -- Part III: Water's perfect memory. Switchback -- Legion -- Truth and reconciliation -- Genesis -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1250125146
9781250125149

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1021232410

LCCN:

2018021437

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