Title Moondoggle : Franklin Roosevelt and the fight for tidal-electric power at Passamaquoddy Bay / Mark C. Borton.

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Camden, Maine: Down East Books, [2023]

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Description	ix, 644 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Prologue : the mystery-who killed Quoddy? -- The protagonists -- One bay-three islands-three nations -- Converging currents -- Inter-national action (1921-1924) -- American power (1925) -- Crossing the border (1926-1929) -- Back in the U.S.A. (1929-1931) -- Despair and hope (1929-1934) -- Green lights (1935) -- Yellow lights (1935-1936) -- Red lights (1936-1938) -- The war years (1939-1945) -- The atomic age (1946-1969) -- Who killed Quoddy?
Summary	"This book is a dramatic tale about the appeal of tidal power, the difficulties in realizing its potential, and the engineers and U.S. presidents who tried to make clean and renewable tidal power a reality"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project.
	Tidal power-plants -- Maine -- History -- 20th century.
	Passamaquoddy Bay (N.B. and Me.)
	Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
	Cooper, Dexter P.
	Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945. (OCoLC)fst00032031
	Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project. (OCoLC)fst01789439
	Tidal power-plants. (OCoLC)fst01150777
	Atlantic Ocean -- Passamaquoddy Bay. (OCoLC)fst01310461
	Maine. (OCoLC)fst01204270
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title	Franklin Roosevelt and the fight for tidal-electric power at Passamaquoddy Bay
Other Form:	Online version: Borton, Mark C. Moondoggle Lanham, MD : Down East Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, trade division of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023] 9781608937158 (DLC) 2022030168
ISBN	9781608937141 hardcover
	1608937143 hardcover
	9781608937158 electronic book

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