My City Was Gone One American Town's Toxic Secret, Its Angry Band of Locals, and a $700 Million Day in Court

Powerful and important, My City Was Gone is the cautionary tale of how a hardworking small town was destroyed by the very forces that created it. Anniston, Alabama, was once a thriving industrial hub, home to a Monsanto chemical plant as well as a federal depot for chemical weapons. Now its notoriety comes from its exceptionally high cancer rate-some 25 percent above the state norm-and the town's determined citizens who joined together and struck back at the corporation. As provocative and timely as Erin Brockovich or A Civil Action, My City Was Gone is a magnificently told true story of ordinary citizens in a small Southern town who led a legendary fight against corporate pollution and wrongdoing.Love, Dennis is the author of 'My City Was Gone One American Town's Toxic Secret, Its Angry Band of Locals, and a $700 Million Day in Court', published 2007 under ISBN 9780060585518 and ISBN 006058551X.