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The Higherside Chats

Anna Clark | The Flint Water Crisis, Engineered Inequality, & America’s Big Lead Problem

The Higherside Chats

Greg Carlwood

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Anna Clark is a journalist in Detroit. She’s the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy, named one of the year’s best books by the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, the New York Public Library, Audible, and others. It is the winner of the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award. She also edited A Detroit Anthology. Anna has been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and a Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan. Follow her on Twitter @annaleighclark Her website is Annaclark.net

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In the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the nation through a series

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of radio broadcasts known as the Fire Side Chats.

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His aim was to reassure the common man that our society would recover from its trouble

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times.

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Well, we're far from 1930, and I deal with a different kind of fire.

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For a new era of worldly frustration, we offer a fresh conversation.

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