Love Canal

by Lois Marie Gibbs, Murray Levine

The inspiring story of a seemingly ordinary woman who led one of the most successful, single-purpose, grassroots efforts of our time.

Genres: Environment, Nonfiction

174 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1982

Reviews

[Michael Mingo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gibbs's prose style (as told to Murray Levine) is certainly fatiguing: short, very expository sentences, an abundance of exclamations, etc. But it captures the feeling, the overwhelming exhaustion, of dealing with a government that ignores or dismisses citizen complaints. If it takes years of letters, meetings, protests, and (in one memorable episode) hostage-taking to get people out of Love Canal, what does that say about the rest of our societal ills?

[Jennifer Nagy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great work! I went to high school with her son when this book originally came out.

There was a lot to learn. It is scary how these things happen.