Ebook {Epub PDF} The Poisoned City: Flints Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark

In the first full accounting of the Flint water crisis, Clark combines a staggering amount of research and several intimate story lines to reveal how the Michigan city was poisoned by its leaders and then largely abandoned to its fate by state officials/5().  · And when LeeAnne Walters asked for a copy, he gave her one, too. She, in turn, shared the report with a journalist she trusted. The Flint water crisis, a local worry for more than a year, was about to move into the spotlight. Excerpted from THE POISONED CITY: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, by Anna Clark. The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water And The American Urban Tragedy. Author: Anna Clark Publisher: New York: Metropolitan Books, , Afterword p. Reviewer: Toni M. Massaro | March “The Flint water crisis is a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction, and environmental injustice.” * –Flint Water Advisory Task Force, Final Report 1 ()Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.

SUPPORT THE PROGRAM Join us on Patreon: www.doorway.ru where you can also watch a re-run of the three hour program at any time AUDIO PO. Anna Clark is a journalist living in Detroit. She's the author of The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy, which was named one of the year's best books by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, and www.doorway.ru also edited A Detroit Anthology, which, like the Flint book, is a Michigan Notable Book, and she wrote a book about the literary history. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy Next City contributor Anna Clark recounts how a brave professor and determined activist tirelessly worked to expose government negligence and bring national coverage to a population of people poisoned by their own water supply.

Anna Clark is a ProPublica journalist who lives in Detroit. She is the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, which won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. Anna’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, the New Republic, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Boston Review, Next City, and other publications. 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. 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.