Margaret L Davis

Rivers in the Desert

William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

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Rivers in the Desert is the quintessential American story. It follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. Davis chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame, followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed to safeguard the water supply. The disaster, which killed at least… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Davis, Margaret Leslie

ISBN: 978-1-4976-1377-5
EAN: 9781497613775
Produktnummer: 19299319
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'779 KB

Über den Autor

Margaret Leslie Davis is the author of Spur Award winner Rivers in the Desert (1993), Los Angeles Times bestseller Dark Side of Fortune (1998), and most recently, The Lost Gutenberg (2019). She is also a lawyer and a graduate of Georgetown University. Davis lives in Los Angeles, California.