Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / Michael Hiltzik.
Hiltzik, Michael A.
2010
TC557.5.H6 H55 2010 (Mapit)
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Title Colossus : Hoover Dam and the making of the American century / Michael Hiltzik.
Author Hiltzik, Michael A.
Edition 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
ISBN 9781416532163
1416532161
Publication Details New York : Free Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 496 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number TC557.5.H6 H55 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 627/.820979313
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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