An Everglades Providence

by Davis, Jack E.

• ISBN13: 9780820337791
• ISBN10: 082033779X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

No one did more than Marjory Stoneman Douglas to transform the Everglades from the country's most maligned swamp into its most beloved wetland. By the late twentieth century, her name and her classic The Everglades: River of Grass had become synonymous with Everglades protection. The crusading resolve and boundless energy of this implacable elder won the hearts of an admiring public while confounding her opponents-growth merchants intent on having their way with the Everglades. The environmental activism of this lifetime feminist, suffragist, champion of social justice, and author of diverse literary talents ultimately earned her a place among a mere handful of individuals honored as a namesake of a national wilderness area. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jack E. Davis is a professor of history at the University of Florida. He is editor of The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and coeditor of Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Author's Note and Acknowledgments	p. xix
Journey's End	p. 3
River of Life	p. 23
Lineage	p. 39
Mr. Smith's ôReconnoissanceö	p. 55
Birth and Despair	p. 70
Suicide	p. 81
Growing Up	p. 90
Frank's Journey	p. 104
The Sovereign	p. 115
Wellesley	p. 127
Reports	p. 138
Marriage	p. 153
By Violence	p. 163
Killing Mr. Bradley	p. 180
A New Life	p. 199
Conservationists	p. 212
Rights	p. 228
World War	p. 241
Land Booms	p. 257
The Galley Slave	p. 273
Hurricanes	p. 293
Stories	p. 310
The Proposal	p. 327
The Book Idea	p. 344
The Park Idea	p. 363
Dedications	p. 380
An Unnecessary Drought	p. 403
Perishing and Publishing	p. 420
Grassroots	p. 438
The Jetport	p. 456
The Conversion	p. 472
Regionalism and Environmentalism	p. 491
The Kissimmee	p. 513
Grande Dame	p. 529
Justice and Equality	p. 549
The Gathering Twilight	p. 569
Epilogue: ôWithout Meö	p. 591
Notes	p. 607
Index	p. 733
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