Nature author David Gessner (My Green Manifesto) didn't plan to write about the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but when he heard the Gulf called a "national sacrifice zone," Gessner had to know who and what had been sacrificed. He traveled the Gulf states in search of the story beyond "the oi...
A double writer's biography, giving my to read list a healthy boost and a context for a lot of the mystification and 20th century thinking about the American West.