Love Canal challenges readers to think about long-term structural problems that are place-specific and deeply historical...[Newman] succeeds in revealing the public health fiasco as a powerful example of persistent citizen activism in the face of government complacency.
Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology. A native of Buffalo, New York, he is the author and/or editor of five previous books on abolitionism, African American history, and environmentalism, including The Palgrave Environmental Reader and Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers. For fifteen years, he taught environmental history at Rochester Institute of Technology.