Through gripping narrative and dogged reporting, Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed, and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline. And The Swamp is a cautionary tale for that era. That plan is already the blueprint for a new worldwide era of ecosystem restoration. Grunwald shows how a new breed of visionaries transformed Everglades politics, producing the $8 billion rescue plan. The swamp the Everglades, Florida, and the politics of paradise by Grunwald, Michael Condition Used Published 2006 Binding Softcover ISBN 10 0743251075 Quantity Available 1 Seller Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA Schenectady, New York, USA Seller rating : Description: New York, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,, 2006. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. Michael Grunwald is a best-selling author and an award-winning journalist who writes about policy and politics.

In this book, Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and 'reclaim' it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades. The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In The Swamp, prize-winning reporter Michael Grunwald takes listeners on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social, and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land.

The Swamp by Michael Grunwald