Books written by Seamus McGraw

A Thirsty Land: The Fight for Water in Texas

Even if you feel no connection to Texas, these stories are relevant to every part of the country.” —Outside “Interviewing both scientific experts and everyday water users, [McGraw] clearly delineates the competing interests, describes ...
From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities.
The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone

In The End of Country, journalist and area native Seamus McGraw opens a window on the battle for control of this land, revealing a conflict that pits petrodollar billionaires and the forces of corporate America against a band of locals ...
A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis

Part history, part science, part adventure story, and part travelogue, this book puts a human face on the struggle to master that most precious and capricious of resources, water.
A Thirsty Land: The Fight for Water in Texas

Part history, part science, part adventure story, and part travelogue, this book puts a human face on the struggle to master that most precious and capricious of resources, water.
Betting the Farm on a Drought: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change

The Changing Organization of U.S. Farming. USDA Economic Information Bulletin no. 88. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, December 2011. 2007 Census of Agriculture. Prepared and released in 2009 ...
From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

It’s impossible to read this work without nodding or wincing or even crying.” —Patrick Skinner, detective, Savannah, Georgia “From a Taller Tower is a careful, even cathartic, look at mass shooters and the culture that ushers them ...
A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis

Pipe dreams, the 1968 state water plan -- When mine is yours and yours is ours -- "That's the kind of thinking that will get your land took from you"--The last straw -- Rice in the desert -- What makes the dollar flip -- Dow by law -- An ...
A Thirsty Land: The Fight for Water in Texas

Even if you feel no connection to Texas, these stories are relevant to every part of the country.” —Outside “Interviewing both scientific experts and everyday water users, [McGraw] clearly delineates the competing interests, describes ...