Iversen, Kristen

The author tells the story of growing up near Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant working with plutonium in Colorado, and investigates accidents and government concealed toxic and radioactive waste released by the plant.

Draws from letters, journals, court records, newspaper articles, family memoirs, and other authentic documentation to reconstruct the life of Margaret Tobin Brown, the Titanic survivor who inspired the musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown"; discussing her early years in Hannibal, Missouri, her political work, and her family.