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Praise for Devra Davis and The Secret History of the War on Cancer

Join[s] this increasingly fractious debate with devastating force.

NewYork Review of Books

The Secret History of the War on Cancer reflects the complex interaction of science, politics and society in the 20th century. I am left wondering how it will change in the 21st.

Times Higher Education Supplement

Davis writes with passion, driven by the conviction that premature deaths among her family members resulted from exposure to industrial toxins... a powerful call to action.

Library Journal

Several big ACS [American Cancer Society] contributors are heavily invested in keeping the public from becoming fully informed of the risks of myriad chemicals to which we and our children are exposed.... Money, it seems, trumps all. Treatment and cures are hefty profit generators, and its expensive to change or eliminate the use of potentially toxic chemicals.... Kudos to Davis for stepping up to the plate.

Booklist (starred review)

The most important science book of the twenty-first century.

BARBARA SEAMAN, author of
The Greatest Experiment Ever Conducted onWomen

Easily the most important science book of the year.... Each and every chapter in this book offers an uncomfortable revelation.

Toronto Globe & Mail

[This] compelling and well-written text moves from past to present to assess scores of contemporary workplace and lifestyle hazards, from cell phones to household cleansers to diet soft drinks, and makes clear that the law has been useless in protecting our health.

NewYork Law Journal

Davis writes with passion, driven by the conviction that premature deaths among her family members resulted from exposure to industrial toxins... a powerful call to action; recommended for most libraries.

LJExpress.com

A breathtaking, impeccably documented wake-up call for what we should have done and what we must do!

TERESA HEINZ KERRY, co-author of This Moment on Earth

Davis documents with meticulous research the true causes and evolution of the disease.

Sherbrooke Record (Quebec)

Davis diligently and persuasively argues that we are ignoring dozens of cancer-causing chemicals.

Slate

A well-researched, overstuffed, fascinating book.

The Times of Trenton

Devra Davis has written a brave and brilliant book. It is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why weve spent so much more effort treating cancer than preventing it.

LISA HEINZERLING, Georgetown University Law Center,
and author of Priceless: On Knowing the Price
of Everything and the Value of Nothing

The Secret History of the War on Cancer should be read by everyone who believes that our governments have done an effective job of promoting our health.

DAVID O. CARPENTER, M.D., Director, Institute for Health and
the Environment, State University of New York at Albany

Devra Lee Davis writes with clarity, passion and unassailable precision. This book is a fascinating blend of history, science, politics and medicine that reads like a novel.

DAVID SERVAN-SCHREIBER, author of The Instinct to Heal

With the mastery of a great writer Devra Davis takes the reader inside the successes, the failures, and the ambiguity of research on cancer.

LORENZO TOMATIS, MD, Former Director,
International Agency for Research on
Cancer, World Health Organization

The Secret History of theWar on Cancer is a masterful combination of scientific insights and investigative journalism. If you want to know why one in three Americans develops cancer, read this book.

MITCHELL GAYNOR, MD, President,
Gaynor Integrative Oncology

Relentlessly researched and a convincing call-to-action, this is a book that can save lives.

Common Ground

In her devastating, 20-years-in-the-making expos... Devra Davis... shows how cancer researchers, bankrolled by petrochemical and pharmaceutical companies, among others, collude in the science of doubt promotion.... Davis diagnoses two of the most lethal diseases of modern society: secrecy and self-interest. This book is a dramatic plea for a cure.

O Magazine

A detailed history of workplace and environmental carcinogens that predates Nixons war on cancer in the 70s... fascinating reading as Davis reviews the tobacco story and describes conditions in steel mills, copper smelters, chemical factories and plastics plants, where workers are exposed to insidious and lethal solvents and agents such as asbestos, benzene, formaldehyde and dioxin. She also immortalizes the many poor people in small towns next to waste dumps or downstream from hugely polluted rivers who died from cancer or whose children suffered birth defects. In almost every case, the offending corporation lied, denied, delayed or bought-off complaints, recruiting the best legal talent and, sad to say, even highly respected scientists.

Kirkus Reviews

ALSO BY DEVRA DAVIS

When Smoke Ran Like Water:
Tales of Environmental Deception and
the Battle Against Pollution

FOR RICHARD

Cowardice asks the question,Is it safe?
Expediency asks the question,Is it politic?
And Vanity comes along and asks the question,Is it popular?
But Conscience asks the question,Is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Preface

Writing has to do with darkness, and a desire, perhaps a
compulsion, to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and
bring something back out to the light.

MARGARET ATWOOD

MY MOTHER ALWAYS SAID THAT G-d watches over little children because parents cant be everywhere all the time. I come from a long line of well-watched children. When she was five, my great-grandmother Molly once spent an entire day hiding under a stack of hay on a horse-drawn cart until her mother could whisk her away from pogroms in Transcarpathia. Molly grew up to be a very patient woman.

Sometimes survival traits that work in desperate circumstances can lead to problems in other environments. As a boy of nine during the First World War, Mollys son, my great-uncle Paul, roamed through the woods of Hungary, eating as much as he could whenever he could. About the ability to binge, he once said, By the time the fat ones were thin, the thin ones were dead. This could explain why Central European peasants who survive famine tend to be stout but able to run like hell.

It was a good thing for me that Mollys daughter, my grandmother, Bubbe Fanne, came from that stock. In the winter of 1924, a fiery explosion rocked the basement dry-cleaning factory below my grandparents small wooden home in Monongahela. Bubbe Fanne raced through the flames to grab her two toddlers, one of whom, Harry, would become my dad less than twenty years later. Only years after she died did I learn how Bubbe Fanne got the thick red scars that ran down her arms and across her shoulders and chest. Long after his mother had pulled him from a blazing building, my father eluded death another time. As a drill sergeant, he snatched a live grenade from the shaking hands of a green army recruit and tossed it away just before it blew to smithereens.

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