Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed by Judy Pasternak

Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed

Judy Pasternak

336 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction health history nature politics science dark informative slow-paced
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WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD Atop a craggy mesa in the northern reaches of the Navajo reservation lies what was once a world-class uranium mine called Monument No. 2. Discovered in the 1940s—during the government’s despera...

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