Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal, Missouri, often brings to
mind romanticized images of Twain's fictional characters Huck Finn
or Tom Sawyer exploring caves and fishing from the banks of the
Mississippi River. In "City of Dust, " Gregg Andrews tells another
story of the Hannibal area, the very real story of the exploitation
and eventual destruction of Ilasco, Missouri, an industrial town
created to serve the purposes of the Atlas Portland Cement
Company.
In this new edition, Andrews provides an introduction detailing
the impact of this book since its initial publication in 1996. He
writes of a new twist in the Ilasco saga, one that concerns the
Continental Cement Company's attempt, not unlike Atlas's one
hundred years earlier, to manipulate the sale of a piece of land
near its plant in the town. He explores the uneasy relationship
between preservationists and the plant's CEO and officials in St.
Louis; the growing movement to preserve Ilasco's heritage,
including the building of a monument to commemorate the early
residents of the town; and the grassroots petition drive and
letter-writing campaign that stopped the Continental Cement
Company's machinations.
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