Rust: The Longest War

Rust: The Longest War

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ** A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year

Rust has been called â€œthe great destroyer,â€ the â€œpervasive menace,â€ and â€œthe evil.â€ â€œThis look at corrosionâ€”its causes, its consequences, and especially the people devoted to combating itâ€”is wide-ranging and consistently engrossingâ€ (The New York Times).

It is the hidden enemy, the one that challenges the very basis of civilization. This entropic menace destroys cars, fells bridges, sinks ships, sparks house fires, and nearly brought down the Statue of Libertyâ€™s torch. It is rustâ€”and this book, full of wit and insight, disasters and triumphsâ€”is its story.

â€œJonathan Waldmanâ€™s first book is as obsessive as it is informativeâ€¦he takes us deep into places and situations that are too often ignored or unknownâ€ (The Washington Post). In Rust, Waldman travels from Key West to Prudhoe Bay, meeting people concerned with corrosion. He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks and nearly gets kicked out of Can School. He follows a high-tech robot through an arctic winter, hunting for rust in the Alaska pipeline. In Texas, he finds a corrosion engineer named Rusty, and in Colorado, he learns of the animosity between the galvanizing industry and the paint army. Along the way, Waldman recounts stories of flying pigs, Trekkies, rust boogers, and unlikely superheroes.

The result is a man-versus-nature tale thatâ€™s as fascinating 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 â€œengrossingâ€¦brilliantâ€¦Waldmanâ€™s gift for narrative nonfiction shines in every chapterâ€¦.Watching things rust: who would have thought it could be so excitingâ€ (Natural History).
Country USA
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-03-10
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-03-10
Format	Kindle eBook

Rust: The Longest War

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