Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
Catherine Coleman Flowers
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Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
Catherine Coleman Flowers
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Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
With the people of Lowndes Country forced to live in squalor, and burdened by an unaffordable fix, Flowers exposes the true injustice of the situation and how it can be remedied, from both sides of the political spectrum. This is a powerful and moving book that deserves wide readership..
Pamela Rush didn’t get the home she deserved. She tried.
Mixing memoir, civil rights history, and polemic, this blunt litany by Flowers delivers a call to action for all concerned about sustainable solutions to the shamefully inadequate environmental infrastructure, policies, and practices in the United States..
In Waste, Flowers recounts a lifetime of advocacy that has culminated in the battle for one Alabama county. Flowers was raised by Civil Rights activists, with others in and out of her home, and so advocacy has been a theme throughout her life.
In an imperfect blend of memoir and reporting, the author recalls her years of work to ease conditions so unsanitary a U.N. official said he hadn’t seen them 'in the first world.' With admirable tenacity, Flowers cultivated reporters.