Kate Winkler Dawson
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Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer, whose work has appeared in the New York Times, on WCBS News and ABC News Radio, Fox News Channel, UPI, PBS NewsHour, and Nighttime. She is a junior fellow with the British Studies Program and teaches journalism at The University of Texas at näytä lisää Austin. Dawson is also on the board of directors for the Texas Center for Actual Innocence, a nonprofit organization that investigates claims of wrongful convictions in the state of Texas. näytä vähemmän
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- Boston University (BS - Journalism)
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- University of Texas at Austin
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The book toggles between these two unrelated storylines rather unsuccessfully. It becomes more and more clear that linking the two is a real stretch. There are some nice human interest stories of families affected by the fog and some interesting info about coal and pollution and how disgusting the fog actually was - the inside of cloth masks was brown after a few hours from all the particulate matter being inhaled and exhaled. The serial killer storyline - John Reginald Christie - was macabre and bizarre with all the weird false confessions. How could his wife not have known what a creep he was? But on the whole, the writing was pedestrian and the biggest complaint -- it seems like two separate books. Both stories, while tragic, are not that complex which is probably why she conflated them in one book. But there really was no larger message.
The whole experience of reading this was a bit of a chore. No real mystery or dramatic tension or an object lesson necessarily. I think intriguing to explore the beginnings of government's role in stemming pollution and the political divides that existed between liberal and conservative from early on, even across the pond. But overall -- this was just OK for me.… (lisätietoja)