The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

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And though the southern Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national park, it soon deteriorated into an ecological mess.

The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished.

Now America wants its swamp back. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline. And though the southern Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished.

Now America wants its swamp back.

Grunwald shows how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it, and how Mother Nature refused to bend to their will; in the Everglades. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.

Now it is revered as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Grunwald shows how a new breed 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 most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the most harrowing tale, a 1928 hurricane drowned 2,500 people in the Everglades.

And this book is a cautionary tale for that era.

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