Against the Tide: The Battle for America's BeachesAmericans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins