Marc Weingarten

Thirsty (eBook, ePUB)

William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thirsty is an exploration of Los Angeles' storied history in regards to water. Starting with William Mullholland and his aqueducts, through the 1926 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, which killed hundreds, and on through to the profound implications Los Angeles' path has for today. Where Marc Reiser's seminal 1986 book Cadillac Desert started, Marc Weingarten's Thirsty continues. Illuminating the complexities of the Los Angeles aquaduct system, the politics behind supplying America's second largest city with water from hundreds of mile away, and the disaster that haunted William Mullholland until his final days.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rare Bird Books
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781942600176
• Artikelnr.: 44238392

Autorenporträt

Marc Weingarten: Marc Weingarten is the author of The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight and Station to Station, as well as co-editor of Yes Is The Answer: And Other Prog Rock Tales and Here She Comes Now. He is also producer of the documentaries God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir, as well as television's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. He lives in Malibu, CA.