The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Everglades i n southern Florida were once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. 'Brilliant.' - The Washington Post Book World * 'Magnificent.' - The Palm Beach Post * 'Rich in history yet urgently relevant to current events.' - The New Republic To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. 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.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. 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 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. 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.

The swamp by michael grunwald