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Northwest Public Radio's Anna King on Downwind, 27 October 2014

Downwind on the University of Nebraska Press Blog, 20 October 2014

Samantha Updegrave's review of Downwind, published in High Country News, 14 September 2014

Advance Praise:

“Comprehensive and incisive, Downwind also adds heart and soul to an epic story of resilience in the aftermath of reckless arrogance. Sarah Fox gives the history of the nuclear age back to the people who had it written in their bones. The testimony she captured is both shocking and inspiring.”

—Chip Ward, author of Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the West

"In this incredibly important book, Sarah Alisabeth Fox effectively shows how the stories of regular people are to be trusted more than the words of the government and the experts when the latter are lying in a misguided attempt to protect national security."

—Doug Brugge, PhD, MS, Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

“Fox demonstrates precisely why these folk accounts of nuclear technologies are so important: they provide a corrective to the historical record that has been warped by propaganda.”

–-- Dr. Patrick Sharp, author of Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

“In addition to illuminating the past, this book also sheds light on the present, challenging us to wonder what “official fictions” are being constructed today. We can learn from the downwinders, recognize the connection between living systems and act to protect our lives and the planet we depend on before more disasters occur.”

---Samantha Claire Updegrave, High Country News

 “a tale of intentional disregard of human and animal life by the US Government and corporations involved in the mining of uranium and the testing of nuclear bombs.  Through the use of oral histories, scholarly investigation and journalistic techniques, Sarah Fox has laid bare a shameful and appalling period of our country’s history from the 1950s to the 1990s that in many ways continues to the present day."

---Julie Weston, author of The Good Times are All Gone Now: Life, Death, and Rebirth in an Idaho Mining Town

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