Power Over People - Softcover

Praise for the First Edition:

"A beautifully executed personal statement with profound meaning for us all....A great little book, with some lovely photographs and an extensive bibliography."―Library Journal

"A careful, well-argued case for considering alternative means for generating and transmitting electrical power."―Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

"An intelligent combination of politics and economics that also manages to portray the human beings involved as more than one-dimensional."―The Washington Monthly

"With both the scientist's expertise and the writer's deep concern for the people involved, [Young] explains both the aesthetic and the practical problems of the present system."―The Science of the Total Environment

"After you've finished her book, put it on your reference shelf next to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. But do not leave it on the shelf, use it as a guide to obtain protective legislation, better regulatory commissions, and increased understanding by the courts."―Senator Lee Metcalf, Western Political Quarterly

"Young makes the technical subject matter and the interaction between physics and biology remarkably comprehensible and never loses sign of the human component."―Regina Ward, Pioneer Press (also in Evanston Review and Wilmette Life)

"A new edition of the first book to warn against the dangers of power line EMFs, originally published in 1973. Young has added an introduction and an epilogue as well as some updated references." ―Microwave News

The beauty of this book is that its author, Louise Young, has given us a graphic, saddening description of what happens when the so-called necessities of a giant electric power company conflict with the desires of countrymen and their community. As one would expect in this era of surging 'progress, ' the company wins and the people lose. However, Louise Young was there, and her jarring account of the classical conflict that arises when government and industry give greater importance to 'progress' than to the living values of the people is the story of Power Over People.