A brief review of Duncan Maysilles's
Ducktown Smoke, recently published by the University of North Carolina Press, has appeared in a "CultureLab," a column of the
New Scientist "where books, arts and science collide"." The review commences:
Ducktown is part of poor America. Home to just 400 people, it is tucked in the south-eastern corner of Tennessee, not far from Chattanooga. Yet a century ago this tiny town made legal history - for the environmental showdown over "Ducktown smoke." As Duncan Maysilles shows, it was the battle that made US environmental law pretty much from scratch.
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