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• Reveals a century of mismanagement of billions of dollars in civil “improvement” projects
• Communities (and even cultures) destroyed
• Ecological balances upset
• Progress by others belligerently opposed
• Presidential policy thwarted
• History neatly rewritten to make the disasters look like triumphs of public service

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"...Morgan effectively lambasts the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a myopic, archaic, negligent, and insensitive institution which strives to maintain a tradition of accomplishment no mater what the costs and mindless of the consequences..."-The Journal of Environmental Education