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Jeff Goodell's latest book is How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2010.

His previous book, Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future, was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2006 by Kirkus Reviews. The New York Times called it, “a compelling indictment of one of the country’s biggest, most powerful and most antiquated industries…well-written, timely, and powerful.”

Goodell is the author of three other books, including Sunnyvale, a memoir about growing up in Silicon Valley that was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Our Story, an account of the nine miners trapped in a Pennsylvania coal mine, was a New York Times best...more


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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret ...
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Trapped: 77 Hours Underground
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