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Shining new light on the multifaceted controversy at Love Canal, Blum provides the best account I've seen of racial friction among residents near the infamous toxic-waste dumpsite, and the often bitter in-fighting among activists. --Allan Mazur, author of A Hazardous Inquiry: The Rashomon Effect at Love Canal A fresh look at an important environmental turning point in American history. Blum's focus on gender, race, and class is original and absolutely necessary. --Martin Melosi, author of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present A carefully crafted, original, and important critique. --Dianne D. Glave, coeditor of To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History This is an insightful, sympathetic, and exciting account of the complex racial, gender, and economic politics of Love Canal, adding a new dimension to what is often told as a heroic story. This elegant book is instructive for understanding the growing movement for environmental justice and against environmental racism that would emerge in the coming decades. --Journal of American History A timely reexamination of the controversial event that made 'hazardous waste' a household word in North America. Blum weaves an elegant tapestry . . . as she challenges and redefines the traditional narrative, providing an in-depth and illustrative portrait of a watershed moment in American environmental history. --Historian A well-written, well-documented, and thoughtful story. --Choice A short, well-written, and powerful revisionist account of a historical episode that has traveled into myth--and that needs to be read again as history, by as many people as possible. --American Historical Review

Shining new light on the multifaceted controversy at Love Canal, Blum provides the best account I've seen of racial friction among residents near the infamous toxic-waste dumpsite, and the often bitter in-fighting among activists. -- Allan Mazur

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