Larry Mantle speaks with Robert Sullivan, author of a new book titled RATS: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury). It tells of the centuries-old war between human city dwellers and the wild city rat. City-dwellers have been warring with rats since cities existed and Sullivan recounts not only the history of the city rat but also the history of the city as told by tenant organizers, sanitation workers, rodent control officials and exterminators.
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