Her book is the 2019-20 selection for Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s common reading program. “That’s really important to me – finding people who have vanished from our national consciousness and learning what they did and how they contributed.” “As a science writer who focuses on history quite a lot, one of the things I like best is finding those forgotten moments of history that influence how we got to where we are today,” Blum says. Neither had Deborah Blum until she wrote her book, “The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Harvey Washington Wiley, a man you likely haven’t heard of. Such was the case before the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, banning adulterated or misbranded food and drugs. A first-year student reads the back of “The Poison Squad” after the book was distributed at the Chancellors Convocation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |