Yellow Dirt A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos

by Pasternak, Judy

• ISBN13: 9781416594833
• ISBN10: 1416594833
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-05
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

Award-winning reporter Judy Pasternak tells the haunting story of uranium mining on the Navajo desert and its terrible, long-ignored legacy.

Author Biography

Judy Pasternak is an editor with Bloomberg News in Washington, D.C. She worked for the Los Angeles Times for twenty-four years, in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Washington. She has won numerous awards for environmental and investigative journalism. She is married, with one son.

Table of Contents

Principal Characters	p. xi
Prologue S-37, SOM, and SOQ	p. 1
The Uranium Rush
The Patriarch
Discovery
The Special Rocks	p. 13
The Secret Quest	p. 24
Jumping on the King	p. 33
The Son
Fear and Frenzy
The Power of Leetso	p. 43
Cold War	p. 53
The Obstacle	p. 65
A Hundred Tons a Day	p. 80
Endings	p. 98
Toxic Legacy
The Grandchildren
Aftermath
Fallout	p. 119
Avalanche of Suspicion	p. 131
A Blind Eye and a Deaf Ear	p. 145
The Great-Grandchildren
Death and Awakening
"Hear Our Voices"	p. 163
Under Scrutiny from Every Angle	p. 180
Resistance	p. 197
Ghosts	p. 220
Beginnings	p. 241
Epilogue The Steeple	p. 254
New Afterword	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 264
Notes	p. 268
Selected Bibliography	p. 295
Index	p. 307
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