The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Hard to say I liked it as it was about the horrible sickness and death that many women experienced back in the 1920s and 1930s. But it was very informative. You can see parallels all around us.
Politicians continue to talk about ‘burdensome regulations' concerning things like mercury that we know are dangerous.
Back then, the popular and medical consensus was that radium cured many things and if you weren't sick it made you even better.
But, as always, once the company found out it was dangerous, they did everything possible to deny and lie about it.
Reading this book will remind you why we have an EPA, FDA, OSHA and CDC and why it's important that they be kept strong and independent.