The Snail Darter and the Dam: How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Little Fish and Killed a River

by Zygmunt Jan Broel Plater and Zygmunt J.B. Plater

Book Overview

The untold story of a notorious environmental case and the citizen crusade that carried a little fish through Washington politics and the Supreme Court

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish that blocked completion of a TVA dam is still invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the lawyer who with his students fought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300173245
• ISBN13: 9780300173246
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"