Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
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| Author | Dan Fagin |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Bantam |
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March, 2013 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 560 |
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| 363.7209749/48 | |
| LC Class | 2012-017030 |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin. It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies in Toms River, New Jersey beginning in 1952 through the 1980s, and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the 2014 National Academies Communication Award.
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