Description
The realities of the darter’s case, Plater asserts, have been consistently mischaracterized in politics and the media. This book offers a detailed account of the six-year crusade against a pork-barrel project that made no economic sense and was once unsuitable from the start. In truth TVA’s project was once designed for recreation and real estate development. And on the heart of the little group fighting the project in the courts and Congress were circle of relatives farmers trying to save their homes and farms, most of that have been to be resold in a corporate land development scheme. Plater’s gripping tale of citizens navigating the tangled corridors of national power stimulates important questions about our nation’s governance, and at last sets the snail darter’s record straight.