|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
|
|
|
|
|
Author
|
|
|
Michael Hiltzik.
|
|
|
Publisher
|
Free Press
|
|
Format
|
hardcover
|
|
Product Dimensions
|
9.5
x
6.5
x
1.4
inches
|
|
ISBN
|
9781416532163
|
|
Pages/Publication Date
|
496/2010
|
|
Daedalus Item Code
|
23210
|
|
|
|
List Price:
$30.00
Sale Price:
$5.98
You Save:
$24.02
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Description
|
|
|
|
As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. In this unexpectedly gripping history, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik exposes the tremendous hardships and accomplishments of the men who built the dam under the demonic push of Frank Crowe, the boss who drove them beyond endurance. Hiltzik also details the canny backroom dealings by Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Herculean engineering challenges Crowe faced, and the terrific union strikes by the men who daily fought to beat back the Colorado River. "Just as roiling and dirty as the silt-laden Colorado.... Hiltzik tells the dam's tale well, with majestic sweep and a degree of detail that by rights ought to be numbing, but isn't; every iota of material fits snugly into the narrative, which, unlike the river, flows freely." —SFChronicle
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You might also like:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| The New Deal: A Modern History
|
| Michael Hiltzik. |
| Publisher: Free Press. Format: hardcover. ISBN: 9781439154489. Daedalus Item Code: 21173 |
| List Price: $30.00 Sale Price: $6.98
You Save: $23.02 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
