The book is filled with snippets of these poems, some very beautiful and sad. It turns out to be a detention center where dejected detainees wrote poems and stories all over the walls. And I used to live in SF in the late '90s! I went hiking on Angel Island! I picnicked there! How did I have NO CLUE that immigrants even came THOUGH there? Was I a dimwit?Īnyway, the book starts in 1970, with a newly minted Park Ranger patrolling after the island's been closed to the public, finding a falling-down wooden shack just FILLED with Chinese graffiti (and also a smidge of Japanese, Korean, Russian, Punjabi, Spanish, German and English). This is a photographic history of immigration (mostly Chinese, but also Japanese and Jewish and other groups) through "the Ellis Island of the West." I had NO CLUE. And waaah, I somehow missed this book last year! (I'd thought it pubbed in 2014 but it's 2013 so i can't use it BOO HOO.) But let me gush here. Gold quietly leads both supporters and critics of drilling to consider other views” (Associated Press).I'm frantically reading for my annual Tablet best-Jewy-books Hanukah-gifting roundup. It is a thrilling journey filled with colorful characters: the green-minded Texas oilman who created the first modern frack a bare-knuckled Oklahoman natural gas empire-builder who gave the world an enormous new supply of energy and was brought down by his own success and excesses an environmental leader whose embrace of fracking brought an end to his public career and an aging fracking pioneer who is now trying to save the industry from itself.Ī fascinating and exciting exploration of one of the most controversial and promising sources of energy, The Boom “brings new clarity to a subject awash in hype from all sides…a thoughtful, well-written, and carefully researched book that provides the best overview yet of the pros and cons of fracking. It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it is leading the revival of manufacturing in the United States.Ī definitive narrative history, The Boom follows the twists and turns in the development and adoption of this radical technology. The “best all-around book yet on fracking” ( San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” ( Booklist).įirst invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use.
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