Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
by Simpson, John W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375422315
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422317
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About This Item
Pantheon Books, 2005. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 6x1x9. The building of the O'Shaughnessy Dam and Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in the middle of Yosemite National Parkââ¬âdespite the availability of less expensive, less technically challenging, and less politically complicated possibilities - set off a defining controversy in American environmentalism. From the early 1900s to 1913 Americans argued about proposals to dam the Tuolumne River and transform the extraordinary Hetch Hetchy Valley into a giant source of water and hydroelectric power for the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a story of intrigue replete with political scandals and suspect tactics played out in the corridors of Congress, in San Francisco's City Hall and its corporate boardrooms, and in the national media. The colorful cast of characters includes Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, and John Muir, as well as a host of political bosses, West Coast boosters, East Coast patricians and publishers, big-business interests, newly formed environmental groups, and the American public.
Synopsis
John Warfield Simpson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. He is the author of Visions of Paradise: Glimpses of Our Landscape’s Legacy and Yearning for the Land: A Search for the Importance of Place, and of many articles. He lives in Upper Arlington, Ohio, with his wife and children.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010025479
- Title
- Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
- Author
- Simpson, John W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0375422315
- ISBN 13
- 9780375422317
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 6x1x9
- Keywords
- California, Yosemite
- X weight
- 22 oz
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