Anna Clark

The Poisoned City (eBook, ePUB)

Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250125156
• Artikelnr.: 49420498

Autorenporträt

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 Michigan Literary Luminaries.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Prologue 1
PART I: TAUGHT BY THIRST
1. The Well 13
2. Corrosion 31
3. Revelations 43
4. Saturation 62
PART II: DIVINATION
5. Alchemy 79
6. Citizen/Science 101
7. Meditations in an Emergency 122
8. Blood 138
PART III: WATER'S PERFECT MEMORY
9. Switchback 153
10. Legion 166
11. Truth and Reconciliation 182
12. Genesis 195
Epilogue 210
Afterword to the Paperback Edition 217
Notes 225
Selected Bibliography 299
Acknowledgments 303
Index 307