| | The Everglades(50th Edition) River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Robert Fink, Douglas Majory Stoneman Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1997 by Pineapple Press Special Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-56164-135-2, ISBN: 1-56164-135-9
"Originally published in 1947, The Everglades was one of those rare books, like Uncle Tom's Cabin and Silent Spring, to have an immediate political effect: it helped draw public attention to a vast and little-known area that South Florida developers had deemed a worthless swamp and were busily draining, damming, and remaking, and it mustered needed public support for President Harry Truman's controversial order, later that year, to prote ..."
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