Author: Eloise Flood

Brooklyn resident, 2013 graduate of Pratt SILS. Currently employed as a reference librarian at Pace University in downtown Manhattan.

Solyndra: Rhetoric and Reality in a Partisan Age

In 2009, with great fanfare, the U.S. Government granted solar panel manufacturer Solyndra more than half a billion dollars in loans. By September 2011, the company was bankrupt and its executives were invoking their Fifth Amendment rights. What went wrong?