PositiveThe Chicago Tribune...a thoughtful, at times blistering meditation on how Hanna-Attisha’s own eyes were opened by the failures of public agencies created to protect public health, and by people who appeared to be more interested in saving their jobs than coming to grips with what had happened in Flint ... While weaving her own family’s story through the book—her parents are Iraqi Christians who fled during Saddam Hussein’s regime—Hanna-Attisha sheds new light on how she overcame bureaucratic and political resistance for a game-changing study that revealed the percentage of Flint children with high blood-lead levels had almost doubled after the water switch.
Anna Clark
PositiveThe Chicago TribuneIn her new book, The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, Anna Clark briskly outlines how a series of decisions made by GM and public officials...led to a vastly more dangerous tragedy ... Clark, a freelance journalist based in Detroit, doesn’t tell us anything new about the crisis. But she expertly ties together current events with some of the other corporate and government decisions that got Flint to this fateful point.
