{"product_id":"opportunity-montana-book-brad-tyer-9780807033258","title":"Opportunity, Montana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir-meets-expos  that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America's imagination as an unspoiled landscape. The son of an engineer who reclaimed wastewater, Tyer was looking for a pristine river to call his own. What he found instead was a century's worth of industrial poison clotting the Clark Fork River, a decades-long engineering project to clean it up, and a forgotten town named Opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At the turn of the nineteenth century, Montana exploited the richest copper deposits in the world, fueling the electric growth of twentieth-century America and building some of the nation's most outlandish fortunes. The toxic by-product of those fortunes--what didn't spill into the river--was dumped in Opportunity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the twenty-first century, Montana's draw is no longer metal but landscape: the blue-ribbon trout streams and unspoiled wilderness of the nation's last best place. To match reality to the myth, affluent exurbanites and well-meaning environmentalists are trying to restore the Clark Fork River to its natural state. In the process, millions of tons of toxic soils are being removed and dumped--once again--in Opportunity. As Tyer investigates Opportunity's history, he wrestles with questions of environmental justice and the ethics of burdening one community with an entire region's waste. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stalled at the intersection of a fading extractive economy and a fledgling restoration boom, Opportunity's story is a secret history of the American Dream and a key to understanding the country's--and increasingly the globe's--demand for modern convenience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Tyer explores the degradations of the landscape, he also probes the parallel emotional geography of familial estrangement. Part personal history and part reportorial narrative, \u003ci\u003eOpportunity, Montana \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of progress and its price: of copper and water, of father and son, and of our attempts to redeem the mistakes of the past.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521584603409,"sku":"GOR013428533","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50451380142353,"sku":"CIN0807033251A","price":6.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52105175531793,"sku":"CIN0807033251G","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53274419790097,"sku":"NLS9780807033258","price":21.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53283755229457,"sku":"NIN9780807033258","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0807033251.jpg?v=1774346334","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/opportunity-montana-book-brad-tyer-9780807033258","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}