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Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
by Hiltzik, Michael A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1416532161
- ISBN 13
- 9781416532163
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Free Press, 2010. Hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. In Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ Dustjacket. As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. Pulitzer Prize winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam's conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America's efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces. For embodied in the dam's striking machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation's very culture the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal's outstanding and enduring symbol of national pride.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010030620
- Title
- Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century
- Author
- Hiltzik, Michael A
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1416532161
- ISBN 13
- 9781416532163
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- X weight
- 16 oz
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