The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project

This environmental history of New Mexico since the mid-twentieth century examines issues of environmental justice, pollution, and politics in the years since the Manhattan Project. Price, an Albuquerque-based journalist, explores topics surrounding large scale contamination of land and water in the state and the efforts of major corporations to hide them, and provides an even handed analysis of the issues, examining the veracity of sources, methodologies and evidence of pollutions and corruption. The work includes numerous black and white photographs by Nell Farrell, a documentary photographer who works extensively in the American Southwest. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)