#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”

October 22, 2019 00:30:00
#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”
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#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”

Oct 22 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

For seven years, journalist and New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold reported and wrote the story of how fracking in southwestern Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale forever altered the lives of Stacey Haney, her daughter, Paige and her son, Harley. Griswold’s book, “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,” just received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.

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