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OverviewThirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles’ resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city’s water chief William Mulholland built an aqueduct to grab water over 200 miles away in Owens Valley, but it wasn’t enough. Thirsty is the gripping tale of Los Angeles’ epic battles for water, the larger-than-life characters that shaped a city’s destiny, and the man-made tragedy that killed 400 and forever changed the way water would be harnessed and allocated. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marc WeingartenPublisher: Rare Bird Books Imprint: Rare Bird Books Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.482kg ISBN: 9781942600022ISBN 10: 194260002 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 08 December 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsFinalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award With the skill of a master storyteller, Marc Weingarten narrates one of the great and quintessential California origin stories. This is saga of civic ambition and can-do determination. It is also one of greed, environmental shortsightedness, class and cultural appropriation. So it turns out that it's not just a California story at all but the story of America. --Marisa Silver, New York Times Bestselling author of Mary Coin and Little Nothing Finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award Marc Weingarten's new book, Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown, neatly encapsulates the complex background of civic battles (the so-called water wars ) between L.A. and the Owens Valley that led up to that moment and which helped to create the sprawling megalopolis we live in now. -LA Weekly ...for media cognoscenti, the portions about [Harrison Gray] Otis, his soon-to-be-competitor Boyce and an enterprising delivery man named Harry Chandler will provide added enjoyment. -Adweek Author InformationMarc Weingarten is the author of Station to Station and The Gang that Wouldn't Write Straight; the co-editor of the anthologies Yes is the Answer and Here She Comes Now, and producer of the films God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and The Other One. He lives in Malibu. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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