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Standiford Les - Water To The Angels William Mulholland His Monumental Aqueduct And The Rise Of Los Angeles - Paperback
Standiford Les - Water To The Angels William Mulholland His Monumental Aqueduct And The Rise Of Los Angeles - Paperback
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Description: In this incredibly timely book Les Standiford chronicles William Mulhollands heroic drive to bring water to Los Angeles and thus to create the city we know today. Its a powerfuland beautifully toldstory of hubris ingenuity and ultimately deepest tragedy. Erik Larson bestselling author of Dead Wake and In the Garden of Beasts The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created William Mulhollands Los Angeles aqueducta story of Gilded Age ambition hubris greed and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angelesallowing this small resource - challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research Les Standiford vividly captures the larger - then - life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six - year $23 million project that would transform a region a state and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities politics and powerincluding bribery deception force and bicoastal financial warfarebehind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never beforeconsidered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty - first century Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era the might of a larger than life individual and the scale of a priceless construction project and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future.
Title: Water To The Angels William Mulholland His Monumental Aqueduct And The Rise Of Los Angeles
Author(s): Standiford Les
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062251459
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/23/2016
Description: In this incredibly timely book Les Standiford chronicles William Mulhollands heroic drive to bring water to Los Angeles and thus to create the city we know today. Its a powerfuland beautifully toldstory of hubris ingenuity and ultimately deepest tragedy. Erik Larson bestselling author of Dead Wake and In the Garden of Beasts The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created William Mulhollands Los Angeles aqueducta story of Gilded Age ambition hubris greed and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angelesallowing this small resource - challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research Les Standiford vividly captures the larger - then - life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six - year $23 million project that would transform a region a state and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities politics and powerincluding bribery deception force and bicoastal financial warfarebehind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never beforeconsidered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty - first century Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era the might of a larger than life individual and the scale of a priceless construction project and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future.
Title: Water To The Angels William Mulholland His Monumental Aqueduct And The Rise Of Los Angeles
Author(s): Standiford Les
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062251459
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/23/2016