Name: The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise Paperback
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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. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for 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 America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. 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. But the Army Corps of Engineers finally tamed the beast with levees and canals, converting half the Everglades into sprawling suburbs and sugar plantations. And though the southern Everglades was preserved as a national p

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

Comic Art in America
by Stephen Becker
A social history of the Funnies, the Political Cartoons, Magazine Humor , Sporting Cartoons and Animated Cartoons 
,Antique Hardback Book
386 Pages
1959 ©️

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Comic Art in America by Stephen Becker
A social history of the funnies, the political cartoons, magazine humor, sporting cartoons and animated cartoons.

illustrated by Rube Goldberg
with nearly 409 illustrations 

387 pages 
Hardback 
Good condition
Pet free smoke free home

Comic Art in America by Stephen Becker

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