by Michael Grunwald (2005): Grunwald presents an expert and animated chronicle of the history of the Everglades The book encompasses the Seminole wars, a Reconstruction-era land rush, the notorious Roaring Twenties boom that made Florida swampland "a national punch line," the even more rampant and decimating postwar explosion, and on to congressional battles over the beleaguered swamp during the Clinton and Bush years.