From the time the public learned of DDT's dramatic containment of a
typhus epidemic in Naples during World War II to the ban on DDT by the
Environmental Protection Agency in 1972, this is the story of the
controversial pesticide and its part in the rise of the environmental
movement.
Originally published in 1981.
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