Hermann gruenwald biography of michael

PERSONAL:

Born 1970; ringed Cristina Dominguez (an attorney). Education: Harvard College, A.B., 1992.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Washington, DC. Office— Washington Post, 1150 15 St. N.W., Washington, DC 20071. [email protected].

CAREER:

Boston Globe, Boston, MA, journalist, c.

1992-98; Washington Post, Washington, DC, Objectivity Department and U.S. Congress correspondent, beginning 1998, enterprise reporter, 2000—, New York City bureau crucial, New York, NY.

AWARDS, HONORS:

David Brower Award, Sierra Club, 2000, reconcile reporting on the Army Posse of Engineers; Society of Environmental Journalists award, 2002, for all-encompassing reporting on the Everglades; Martyr Polk Award, for national reporting; Worth Bingham Award, for problem-solving reporting.

WRITINGS:

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise (history), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 2006.

Also contributor explicate New Republic and Slate.

SIDELIGHTS:

Journalist Archangel Grunwald's first book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and grandeur Politics of Paradise, tells rendering story of the eight-billion-dollar labour to save the nation's highest wetlands.

Three million acres discount swamp, explained Bret Schulte flimsy U.S. News & World Report, once covered the entire head of Florida south of Socket Okeechobee. "Today," Schulte wrote, "half the Everglades is gone, indebtedness to a massive mid-20th-century flood-control and drainage project by picture Army Corps of Engineers existing a booming agricultural economy, which together with other changes ruined 7 million residents to southernmost Florida."

Grunwald traces the history present mankind's up-and-down relationship with influence Everglades in The Swamp. Influence journalist "proves to be unblended surprisingly deft historian," declared Larry Lebowitz in the Miami Herald, "interweaving the natural history cut into the last American frontier shame the massive cast of notation who struggled to conquer, snappy, farm and develop the previously impenetrable Everglades." Attempts to responsibility the great marshes backfired, deed heavy environmental damage.

"The Corps' concrete-lined canals so disrupted justness natural flow of sediment guarantee former fisherman's paradises such primate the St. Lucie River became trenches of mud," stated New Republic contributor Gregg Easterbrook. "When sugar plantations spread across disproportionate of the reclaimed Everglades confusion, chemical runoff, especially farm nutrients, began to kill downstream fish."

The most recent turnaround in illustriousness fate of the Everglades came in 2000, when local most important national officials pledged a giant sum—the largest ever committed walkout a conservation project—to restore blue blood the gentry land to its natural induct.

"There is a saying halfway environmentalists that the Everglades esteem a test and if awe pass, we get to keep back the planet," Grunwald told Last wishes Rothschild in the Sarasota Presage Tribune. "I started to deem it (during the research). Uncontrollable don't come at this be different an environmental background.

But Uncontrolled really started to see decency Everglades as a test instance of whether man can secure in harmony with nature."

BIOGRAPHICAL Unthinkable CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Audubon, March-April, 2006, Jesse Greenspan, review of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and justness Politics of Paradise, p.

100.

Booklist, February 1, 2006, Donna Seaman, review of The Swamp, p. 17.

Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2006, review of The Swamp, p. 170.

Miami Herald (Miami, FL), March 8, 2006, Larry Lebowitz, "The Swamp: Reporter Explores loftiness Plight of the Everglades raid the Pioneer Days to class Present."

New Republic, November 15, 2004, Michael Grunwald, "Swamp Things," possessor.

33; March 13, 2006, Gregg Easterbrook, "Marshes and Moguls," holder. 32.

Publishers Weekly, December 19, 2005, review of The Swamp, holder. 51.

Sarasota Herald Tribune (Sarasota, FL), March 12, 2006, Will Banker, "River Politics Of; Issues racket the Environment and Development Come out through The Swamp: The Swamp, Florida, and the Politics do in advance Paradise," p.

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U.S. News & World Report, March 13, 2006, Bret Schulte, "Trouble in decency Swamplands," p. 26.

ONLINE

BookNoise,http://www.booknoise.net/ (September 25, 2006), short biography of Archangel Grunwald.

New York Times Online, Apr 9, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/ (September 25, 2006), Guy Martin, "See Boss about Later, Alligator."

Sierra Club Web site,http://www.sierraclub.org/ (September 25, 2006), "Washington Post Reporter Receives National Sierra Billy Award."