KEITH O'BRIEN Livres

From a New York Times best-selling journalist comes the hidden story of a group of mothers who uncovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, exposing one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. In the winter of 1977, Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and Barbara Quimby believed they had found their American dream in the picturesque community of Love Canal, near Niagara Falls. However, record snowfalls and spring rains revealed a troubling reality: a pungent, synthetic odor filled their homes, signaling the presence of harmful chemicals. As their children began to fall ill, these mothers embarked on a quest for answers. In this gripping narrative, Keith O'Brien reveals how they discovered that their neighborhood sat atop a toxic waste dump operated by Hooker Chemical, which had been concealing its hazardous practices for years. O'Brien weaves together the untold stories of Hooker Chemical's deception, the efforts of local journalists and scientists who sought to help, and the city officials who failed to act. Ultimately, it is the courageous actions of these women that stand out, as they confronted corporate and governmental indifference, ultimately triumphing against overwhelming odds. Their relentless fight not only captured the American imagination but also laid the groundwork for the modern environmental movement.

The untold story of five women who fought to compete against men in the high- stakes national air races of the 1920s and 1930sand won

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth centuryPete Rose is a legend. A baseball god. He compiled more hits than anyone in the history of baseball, a record he set decades ago, which still stands. At the same time, he was a working-class white guy from Cincinnati who made it; less talented than tough, and rough around the edges. He was everything that America wanted and needed him to be, the American dream personified, until he wasn’t.In the 1980s Pete Rose came to be at the center of the biggest scandal in baseball history. Baseball no longer needed Pete Rose, and he was magnificently, publicly cast out for betting on baseball and lying about it. The revelations that followed ruined Pete, changed life in Cincinnati, and forever altered the game.Charlie Hustle tells the full story of one of America’s most epic tragedies, the rise and fall of Pete Rose, one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Drawing on first-hand interviews with Pete himself, his associates, as well we on investigators, FBI and court records, archives, a mountain of press coverage, Keith O’Brien chronicles how Pete fell so far from being America’s “great white hope.” It is Rose as we've never seen before.This is no ordinary sport biography, but cultural history at its finest. What O’Brien shows is that while Pete Rose didn’t change, America and baseball did. This is the story of that change.