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Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / Michael Hiltzik.
Van Pelt Library TC557.5.H6 H55 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hiltzik, Michael A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dams.
- History.
- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.)--History.
- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.).
- Dams--Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Design and construction--History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- The author of "Dealers of Lightning" pens the definitive account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the the 20th century's most consequential public works.
- Contents:
- Introduction: September 30, 1935: Roosevelt comes to the river
- 1: The sinful river
- The journey of death
- Born of the desert
- Rockwood's gamble
- The Lord's dame site
- 2: The road to black canyon
- Hoover steps in
- Battlegrounds
- Hurry-up Crowe
- The silver spike
- The big six
- Ragtown
- Rush job
- The Wobblies' last stand
- Ely's kingdom
- 3: The arch
- The jumbos
- Turning points
- The rising
- The pour
- Reckonings
- The crest
- Legacies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781416532163
- 1416532161
- OCLC:
- 436310851
- Publisher Number:
- 99939891373
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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