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Format:
Book
Title:
Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century
ISBN:
9781416532163
Edition:
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, ©2010.
Physical Description:
496 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction: September 30, 1935: Roosevelt comes to the river -- pt. 1. The sinful river -- The journey of death -- Born of the desert -- Rockwood's gamble -- The Lord's dam site -- pt. 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 -- pt. 3. The arch -- The jumbos -- Turning points -- The rising -- The pour -- Reckonings -- The crest -- Legacies.
Summary:
The author of "Dealers of Lightning" pens an account of the epic construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the 20th century's most important public works.
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