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Mother Country

Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Mother Country

Mother Country

$11.99

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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's...

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272
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04/01/2011

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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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9781429944731

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Mother Country

Mother Country

$11.99