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Rust, March 2015
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Simon & Schuster
March 2015
On Sale: March 10, 2015
304 pages
ISBN: 1451691599
EAN: 9781451691597
Kindle: B00LD1S15Q
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Non-Fiction
A thrilling drama of man versus nature—detailing the
fierce,
ongoing fight against the mightiest and unlikeliest
enemy: rust. It has been called “the great destroyer” and “the evil.”
The
Pentagon refers to it as “the pervasive menace.” It
destroys
cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and
nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs
America more than $400 billion per year—more than all
other
natural disasters combined. In Rust, journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key
West,
Florida, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to meet the colorful and
often reclusive people concerned with corrosion. He
sneaks
into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist and
nearly
gets kicked out of Can School. Across the Arctic, he
follows
a massive high-tech robot, hunting for rust in the Alaska
pipeline. On a Florida film set he meets the Defense
Department’s rust ambassador, who reveals that the navy’s
number one foe isn’t a foreign country but oxidation
itself.
At Home Depot’s mothership in Atlanta, he hunts
unsuccessfully for rust products with the store’s rust
products buyer—and then tracks down some snake-oil
salesmen
whose potions are not for sale at The Rust Store. Along
the
way, Waldman encounters flying pigs, Trekkies,
decapitations, exploding Coke cans, rust boogers, and
nerdy
superheroes. The result is a fresh and often funny account of an
overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as
it
is grand, illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes
the
modern world. Rust affects everything from the design of
our
currency to the composition of our tap water, and it will
determine the legacy we leave on this planet. This
exploration of corrosion, and the incredible lengths we
go
to fight it, is narrative nonfiction at its very best—a
fascinating and important subject, delivered with energy
and
wit.
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