{"product_id":"rust-the-longest-war-9781451691597","title":"Rust: The Longest War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize  A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year  It has been called the great destroyer and the evil. The Pentagon refers to it as the pervasive menace. It destroys cars  fells bridges  sinks ships  sparks house fires  and nearly brought down the Statue of Liberty. Rust costs America more than $400 billion per yearmore than all other natural disasters combined.  In a thrilling drama of man versus nature  journalist Jonathan Waldman travels from Key West  Florida  to Prudhoe Bay  Alaska  to meet the colorful and often reclusive people who are fighting our mightiest and unlikeliest enemy. He sneaks into an abandoned steelworks with a brave artist  and then he nearly gets kicked out of Ball Corporations Can School. Across the Arctic  he follows a massive high-tech robot that hunts for rust in the Alaska pipeline. On a Florida film set he meets the Defense Departments rust ambassador  who reveals that the navys number one foe isnt a foreign country but oxidation itself. At Home Depots mother ship in Atlanta  he hunts unsuccessfully for rust products with the stores rust-products buyerand then tracks down some snake-oil salesmen whose potions are not for sale at the Rust Store. Along the way  Waldman encounters flying pigs  Trekkies  decapitations  exploding Coke cans  rust boogers  and nerdy superheroes.  The result is a fresh and often funny account of an overlooked engineering endeavor that is as compelling as it is grand  illuminating a hidden phenomenon that shapes the modern world. Rust affects everything from the design of our currency to the composition of our tap water  and it will determine the legacy we leave on this planet. This exploration of corrosion  and the incredible lengths we go to fight it  is narrative nonfiction at its very besta fascinating and important subject  delivered with energy and wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647289614389,"sku":"ByrdShop_1451691599","price":21.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781451691597.jpg?v=1781691745","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/rust-the-longest-war-9781451691597","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}