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Mr. Book just finished American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice, by Daniel Stone.
This book will be released on February 18, 2025.
This is the story of Alice Hamilton, who was an early 20th century doctor and public health advocate who became the first female professor at Harvard. She spent decades investigating factories and mines, studying the terrible effects of lead.
Hamilton had determined how breathing lead at approximately the time that General Motors had determined that they could make millions more by selling leaded gasoline. But, what really attracted attention to the dangers of lead was an incidents in a factory in New Jersey in October 1924. The proximity to New York, then just like now, the media capital of the world, ensured that it got a lot of attention.
The book then chronicles how corporate greed and caring only about profits, once again ended up winning against the interests of people. The book showed how the company then launched its successful offensive against science.
I give this book an A. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).
This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews
Mr. Book finished reading this on September 8, 2024.
