Karen Silkwood, a plutonium processing plant employee, was killed in a car crash on her way to deliver important documents about health and safety issues at the plant to a newspaper reporter in 1974. This books investigates her death.
Richard Rashke lives in Washington, D.C. He has written several plays and screenplays, and his books include Escape from Sobibor and Runaway Father. Kate Bronfenbrenner, Director of Labor Education Research for the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, was the winner of the first Karen Silkwood Award granted by the Labor Party for courage in telling the truth about workers' rights.
