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Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley Paperback - 1983
by Kahrl, William L
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- Title Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley
- Author Kahrl, William L
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Revised
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 584
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1983-11-08
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0520050681.G
- ISBN 9780520050686 / 0520050681
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 5.99 x 1.16 in (22.71 x 15.21 x 2.95 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Topical: Ecology
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.910
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The history of California in the twentieth century is the story of a state inventing itself with water.
From the rear cover
"'Water and Power' is not only the most detailed book on the subject but the first one to attempt to be balanced and fair, and, more important, to succeed. . . . A class on how to write history clearly, convincingly, with an eye on the bigger picture, and most of all, with deep common sense."--New York Times Book Review "A crackling piece of history, politics, and economics, full of information, controversy and drama . . . a course in reality, loaded with enough detail, characters, incidents, and richness to make plenty of fiction look pale. Definitive, enlightening, entertaining." --Newsday "Kahrl has done more than simply illuminate an issue of riveting public importance in California; he has set an example for journalists, commentators, and power brokers in California to follow."--Los Angeles Daily Journal "Ambitious, comprehensive, and grounded in those long-neglected sources historians could have used all along . . . . The Owens Valley - Los Angeles water controversy will never be the same again."--American Historical Review