In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town's namesake river. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - Winner of The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award - 'A new classic of science reporting.'-'The New York Times'''The riveting true story of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, 'Toms River' melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative in the tradition of 'A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies, 'and 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.' One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. Print Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Toms river by dan fagin