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Book by Dan Fagin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 nonfiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.[1] It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s,[2] and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction,[3] the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism,[4] and the 2014 National Academies Communication Award.[5]
Author | Dan Fagin |
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Language | English |
Subject | Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Bantam |
Publication date | March 2013 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 560 |
ISBN | 978-0-553-80653-3 |
363.7209749/48 | |
LC Class | 2012-017030 |
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