Marcia Biederman

Gebundenes Buch

A Mighty Force

Dr. Elizabeth Hayes and Her War for Public Health

Beschreibung

The first book dedicated to Dr. Elizabeth O. Hayes' fight for public health on the American homefront during WWII, for which she received national attention (and a victory under President Truman's Justice Department) for her protests against unsanitary conditions in the mining town of Force, Pennsylvania.

Autor

Marcia Biederman has contributed more than 150 articles to the New York Times, writing about everything from ice dancing to automobile wheel repair. She was a staff reporter for Crain’s New York Business and an editor for Chain Store Age. Her work has appeared in New York magazine, the New York Observer, and Newsday. She is the author of several books including Popovers and Candlelight: Patricia Murphy and The Rise and Fall of a Restaurant Empire, published by SUNY Press in 2018, and Scan Artist: How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed Reading Worked, published by Chicago Review Press in 2019.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prometheus Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781633887084
• ISBN-10: 1633887081
• Artikelnr.: 61189050