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Also by Les Standiford:

Water to the Angels, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Bringing Adam Home, March 2011
Hardcover
The Man Who Invented Christmas, November 2008
Hardcover
Havana Run, July 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Bone Key, March 2004
Paperback (reprint)
Deal With the Dead, February 2002
Paperback
Black Mountain, February 2001
Paperback

WATER TO THE ANGELS
By: Les Standiford

William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

Ecco
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
Featuring: William Mulholland
336 pages
ISBN: 0062251422
EAN: 9780062251428
Kindle: B00LEXVGRS
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.

In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century.

With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future.

Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.

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