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The snail darter and the dam : how pork-barrel politics endangered a little fish and killed a river
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- Creator
- Zygmunt J. B. Plater
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0300173245, 9780300173246, 0300195265, 9780300195262
- OCLC
- ocn813392785, ocn847527240
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- God is speaking, by committee -- Of time, a river, and the Tennessee Valley Authority -- At the old fort : the start of a small crusade for a little fish -- Pushing the snail darter onto the endangered species list -- Trial and tribulation in TVA's home court -- An appeal for justice as bulldozers roll -- The snail darter goes to Washington -- Endangered, on the banks of the Potomac -- The snail darter gets its Congressional hearings -- The highest court? -- Another trial and vindication, in the God tribunal -- 140 days of a slow-ticking clock, ending in 42 seconds -- A phone call from Air Force One -- A few years later, on the CBS evening news