{"product_id":"yellow-dirt-book-judy-pasternak-9781416594833","title":"Yellow Dirt","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis investigative feat tells the shocking, heartbreaking story of uranium mining on the Navajo reservation and its terrible legacy of sickness and government neglect, documenting one of the darker chapters in 20th century American history.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now in paperback, the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eYellow Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e, \"will break your heart. An enormous achievement--literally, a piece of groundbreaking investigative journalism--illustrates exactly what reporting should do: Show us what we've become as a people, and sharpen our vision of who we, the people, ought to become\" ( \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e ).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people as the Navajos worked, unprotected, in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which borders Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) continued grazing their animals on sagebrush flats riddled with uranium that had been blasted from the ground. They built their houses out of chunks of uranium ore, inhaled radioactive dust borne aloft from the waste piles the mining companies had left behind, and their children played in the unsealed mines themselves. Ten years after the mines closed, the cancer rate on the reservation shot up and some babies began to be born with crooked fingers that fused together into claws as they grew. Government scientists filed complaints about the situation with the government, but were told it was a mess too expensive to clean up.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Judy Pasternak exposed this story in a prizewinning \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e series. Her work galvanized both a congressman and a famous prosecutor to clean the sites and get reparations for the tribe. \u003ci\u003eYellow Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e is her powerful chronicle of both the scandal of neglect and the Navajos' fight for justice.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542899663121,"sku":"GOR009353292","price":41.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50116899569937,"sku":"CIN1416594833G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50488831050001,"sku":"CIN1416594833VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51024809820433,"sku":"NIN9781416594833","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53375482822929,"sku":"CIN1416594833A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1416594833.jpg?v=1751208651","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/yellow-dirt-book-judy-pasternak-9781416594833","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}