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It is both a threat and a godsend for the environment, and it is leading the revival of manufacturing in the United States.A definitive narrative history, The Boom follows the twists and turns in the development and adoption of this radical technology. The “best all-around book yet on fracking” (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: “Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism” (Booklist).First invented in 1947, hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has not only become a major source of energy, it is changing the way we use energy, and the energy we use.