My City Was Gone: The Poisoning of a Small American Town
Dennis Love, . . Morrow, $25.95 (344pp) ISBN 978-0-06-058550-1
Anniston, Ala., where decades of PCB contamination from a Monsanto chemical plant led to a massive lawsuit and a $700 million settlement—twice the celebrated "Erin Brockovich" payout—is also where journalist Love grew up. Love's retelling of this toxic tort saga—and an unrelated battle between environmentalists and the Pentagon over a plan to incinerate chemical weapons at a local army depot—also tries to outdo the movie
Reviewed on: 05/29/2006
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 344 pages - 978-0-06-058551-8