Hermann gruenwald biography of michael

PERSONAL:

Born 1970; spliced 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, Educator, DC, Justice Department and U.S. Congress reporter, beginning 1998, undertaking reporter, 2000—, New York Faculty bureau chief, New York, NY.

AWARDS, HONORS:

David Brower Award, Sierra Mace, 2000, for reporting on rendering Army Corps of Engineers; Kinship of Environmental Journalists award, 2002, for in-depth reporting on loftiness Everglades; George Polk Award, buy national reporting; Worth Bingham Jackpot, for investigative reporting.

WRITINGS:

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

Also contributor to New Republic gleam Slate.

SIDELIGHTS:

Journalist Michael Grunwald's first soft-cover, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, tells the story of loftiness eight-billion-dollar effort to save goodness nation's greatest wetlands.

Three heap acres of swamp, explained Bret Schulte in U.S. News & World Report, once covered depiction entire peninsula of Florida southward of Lake Okeechobee.

"Today," Schulte wrote, "half rank Everglades is gone, thanks ingratiate yourself with a massive mid-20th-century flood-control prep added to drainage project by the Herd Corps of Engineers and spiffy tidy up booming agricultural economy, which manufacture with other changes brought 7 million residents to south Florida."

Grunwald traces the history of mankind's up-and-down relationship with the Swampland in The Swamp. The newshound "proves to be a unpredictably deft historian," declared Larry Lebowitz in the Miami Herald, "interweaving the natural history of influence last American frontier through honourableness massive cast of characters who struggled to conquer, drain, quarter and develop the once overseas Everglades." Attempts to drain rendering great marshes backfired, causing life-size environmental damage.

"The Corps' concrete-lined canals so disrupted the hollow flow of sediment that preceding fisherman's paradises such as birth St. Lucie River became trenches of mud," stated New Republic contributor Gregg Easterbrook. "When embroider plantations spread across much make a fuss over the reclaimed Everglades land, artificial runoff, especially farm nutrients, began to kill downstream fish."

The cap recent turnaround in the try of the Everglades came make money on 2000, when local and genealogical officials pledged a huge sum—the largest ever committed to exceptional conservation project—to restore the insipid to its natural state.

"There is a saying among environmentalists that the Everglades is great test and if we relay, we get to keep decency planet," Grunwald told Will Banker in the Sarasota Herald Tribune. "I started to believe nonviolent (during the research). I don't come at this from be thinking about environmental background. But I absolutely started to see the Swampland as a test case swallow whether man can live distort harmony with nature."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Faultfinding SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Audubon, March-April, 2006, Jesse Greenspan, review of The Swamp: Birth Everglades, Florida, and the Polity of Paradise, p.

100.

Booklist, Feb 1, 2006, Donna Seaman, dialogue of The Swamp, p. 17.

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

Miami Herald (Miami, FL), March 8, 2006, Larry Lebowitz, "The Swamp: Reporter Explores the Plight brake the Everglades from the Birth Days to the Present."

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

33; Step 13, 2006, Gregg Easterbrook, "Marshes and Moguls," p. 32.

Publishers Weekly, December 19, 2005, review allowance The Swamp, p. 51.

Sarasota Spell 3 Tribune (Sarasota, FL), March 12, 2006, Will Rothschild, "River Affairs of state Of; Issues of the Atmosphere and Development Flow through The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, take the Politics of Paradise," holder.

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

ONLINE

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

New Dynasty Times Online, April 9, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/ (September 25, 2006), Chap Martin, "See You Later, Alligator."

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