They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Title: They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals Author: Mariah Blake History: 1701145 ISBN: 9781524760090 Publisher: Crown Published: 2025 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Number of Pages: 320 Section: Social Science | Disease & Health Issues Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: "Riveting . . . Blake's deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss."--The Washington Post A gripping investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis. In 2014, after losing several friends and relatives to cancer, an unassuming insurance underwriter in Hoosick Falls, New York, began to suspect that the local