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I discovered that my mom was even more of a badass than I had known. More to the point, Calvin Trillin knew it and wrote about it in the New Yorker! In 1967, he explained, a recruiter from Dow met a “friendly-looking, dark-haired girl,” and asked her if she was interested in working at Dow. “I’d be more interested in working for Dow if it weren’t doing something criminal,” she said. “I was wondering if a Dow employee could be prosecuted as a war criminal ten or fifteen years from now, under the precedent of Nuremburg.” The recruiter said: “I assume you’re talking about napalm.” My mom: “That, and crop defoliates.” The recruiter said he didn’t think the war crimes prosecuted at Nuremberg were analogous, and they discussed the distinctions he posited. The recruiter said the government decided how to use what Dow supplied, and “Dow made a decision to support our government.” My mom: “Do you think this is what the German manufacturers thought?” The recruiter asked if she was interested in working for Dow. My mom: “I’m interested in the moral position of working for Dow,” and she handed the recruiter a picture of a burned baby. “I’m curious what goes through the head of a Dow employee when he sees some of these pictures.”
Adam Hochschild, Rebel Cinderella: From Rags To Riches To Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes: ( immigrant story )
Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: ( so you want to be a professor )
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: ( yep, we screwed it up then too )
Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre: A Family History: ( lost connections )
Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession:( fascinated by crime )
Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: ( innovation from the government )
Lynn Zubernis, There’ll Be Peace When You Are Done: ( SPN festschrift )
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood: ( highly recommended )
John G. Turner, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty: ( pilgrims' progress )
Eric H. Cline, Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon: ( not exactly Indiana Jones )
Adam Hochschild, Rebel Cinderella: From Rags To Riches To Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes: ( immigrant story )
Jason Brennan, Good Work If You Can Get It: ( so you want to be a professor )
John M. Barry, The Great Influenza: ( yep, we screwed it up then too )
Serena Zabin, The Boston Massacre: A Family History: ( lost connections )
Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession:( fascinated by crime )
Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State: ( innovation from the government )
Lynn Zubernis, There’ll Be Peace When You Are Done: ( SPN festschrift )
Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood: ( highly recommended )
John G. Turner, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty: ( pilgrims' progress )
Eric H. Cline, Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon: ( not exactly Indiana Jones )
