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Selections from two related and recently published books on the history of chemicals, agriculture, and the environment:

Vail, David D. Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands since 1945. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2018.

Davis, Frederick R. Banned: A History of Pesticides and the Science of Toxicology.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

The two authors opened the discussion with comments on each other's books.