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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030020941X
• ISBN13: 9780300209419
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 9.1"