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Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound

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When Jim Gordon set out to build a wind farm off the coast of Cape Cod, he knew some people might object. But there used to be numerous merit in creating a privately funded, clean energy source for energy-starved New England, and he felt sure the general public would recognize it eventually. Instead, all Hell broke loose. Gordon had unwittingly challenged the privileges of a few of The us’s richest and most politically connected people, and they would fight him tooth and nail, it doesn’t matter what it cost, and even when it made no sense.

Cape Wind is a rollicking tale of democracy in action and plutocracy in the raw as played out among colorful and glamorous characters on one of our country’s most historic and renowned pieces of coastline. As steeped in American history and local color as The Prince of Providence; as biting, revealing and fun as Philistines at the Hedgerow, it’s also a cautionary tale about how money can hijack democracy at the same time as The us lags in the back of the remainder of the developed world in adopting clean energy.

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