Ford, the feds and the mob: the inside story on a wasteland and efforts to clean it up<br><br>A generation ago, the Ford Motor Company churned out 6 million cars and trucks at a sprawling assembly plant in northern New Jersey. Before the plant closed in 1980, it generated an ocean of pollution that was dumped in the nearby forests, contaminating a mountain community and threatening the region’s most important watershed.<br><br>A team of reporters from The Record spent months investigating the dumping and failed cleanup efforts and documenting the impact on the Ramapough Indian community living amid the waste. <br><br>“Toxic Legacy,” the newspaper’s acclaimed series, attracted national attention and inspired the HBO documentary, “Mann v. Ford.” This book contains the series, which won the first-ever Grantham Prize for exceptional environmental journalism, and follows the story up until today. <br><br>A portion of all proceeds is donated to benefit the community affected by the events described in “Toxic Legacy: Making a Wasteland.”<br>