Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.'s disastrous dam collapse: A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal (Los Angeles Daily News). Rivers in the Desert 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. This fascinating history chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame-fo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4976-3878-5
- EAN: 9781497638785
- Produktnummer: 19445432
- Verlag: Open Road Media Sci Fi & Fanta
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.5 cm 324 g
- Gewicht: 324
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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.
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