Mother Country : Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Mother Country
Author(s): Marilynne Robinson

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

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National Book Awards - Nominee (1989), Short-listed National Book Awards - Finalist (1989)

ISBN:  9780374526597