Zygmunt J. B. Plater is professor of law and director of the Land & Environmental Law Program at Boston College Law School. He lives in Newton Highlands, MA.
“This is the inside story, laid out with wonderful lucidity, of a
long and fascinating battle that became an icon of its era and
remains instructive today.”—Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil
Action
*Jonathan Harr*
“The story of the snail darter and the TVA is the Thermopylae in
the history of America’s conservation movement, and this book by
Zygmunt Plater deserves to be the classic telling of it.”—Edward O.
Wilson, Harvard University
*Edward O. Wilson*
"The Snail Darter and the Dam is an inspiring and informative
American story of regular people fighting powerful special
interests. It's about how the public interest lost out to big
money and its political allies--and failures by the local and
national press to report the story fairly, accurately, and in
proper context."—Dan Rather, Anchor and Managing Editor of AXS
TV
*Dan Rather*
"TVA v. Hill is one of my favorite cases. This eminently readable
account of the full history of the case is even more interesting
than the story told in Warren Burger’s opinion for the Court (or my
memory of the oral argument and the shifting positions of the
Justices in my book, Five Chiefs). The author’s account of how
President Carter rejected the “God Committee’s” verdict about the
darter is especially so."—Hon. Justice John Paul Stevens, Supreme
Court of the United States [retired]
*Hon. Justice John Paul Stevens [retired]*
"The inside story of a long and fascinating battle—legal,
political, environmental, and personal— that became an icon of its
era and remains instructive even today. It’s a blueprint for
community action, and—sadly—a still-current roadmap of the way in
which Washington works. The legal maneuverings are laid out with
wonderful lucidity, but even more the book is by turn
compassionate, angry, and intensely humane, and well worth
reading.”—Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action
*Jonathan Harr*
"A compelling history . . . that sheds light on the policy process
and is fascinating in its own right. Recommended [for] all
readership levels."—Choice
*Choice*
“Plater . . . does a deft job of weaving together the legal
framework and context for his fight against TVA, which he ended up
winning before the Supreme Court in the landmark case TVA v. Hill.
He employs a strict first-person, present-tense perspective that
gives the book an engaging, memoiristic tone. [He] provides a
wealth of detail that makes for compelling reading, and he has a
knack for bringing drama to even the most technical court
proceedings."—Clay Risen, Chapter 16
*Chapter 16*
“. . . as compelling history of a controversy that shed light on
the policy process and is fascinating in its own right.”—Choice
*Choice*
Watch Professor Zygmunt Plater's presentation at the Animal Law
Review Symposium at the Lewis & Clark Law School.
*http://lawmedia.lclark.edu/LawMedia/Play/6ba72a09f71b4ab093ff85357beee4251d*
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