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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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