In this book, an insider traces his role in the fight for jetties at Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. The author resolves a dispute over how many fishermen died in Oregon Inlet after the Congress authorized jetties there in 1970. He explores the role of journalists in stirring meaningless controversies over whether the fishermen deserved a stable Inlet through which to steam to their fishery in the Atlantic. This well-sourced book picks up with the return of the fishermen from service in World War Two, moves to the campaign to jetty the Inlet, explains the public policy wrangling throughout the 1980s, and describes the economic and psychic effects of this seemingly never-ending campaign in the waterfront settlements up and down Pamlico Sound. The book is more than 84,000 words in nine chapters, contains dynamic photographs by Drew Wilson, as well as government ærial photos, maps, and explanatory schematic drawings. The 26-page Index contains more than 1,700 entries.