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

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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 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

Michael Grunwald is a reporter at The Washington Post, takes readers 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 Everglades was preserved as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it.

Grunwald shows how the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.

Michael Grunwald is a reporter at The Washington Post, takes readers 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 Everglades was preserved as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it.

Now it is revered 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.

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

Now America wants its swamp back. The River of Grass stopped flowing, and 90 percent of its wading birds vanished.

Now America wants its swamp back.

Grunwald shows how the Everglades is still threatened by the same hubris, greed and well-intentioned folly that led to its decline.

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

Now America wants its swamp back. Grunwald shows how the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations.

Now it is revered as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it.

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