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""Consulting engineer John R. Freeman played such a crucial role in the Hetch Hetchy debates that the usual antagonists - John Muir and Gifford Pinchot - become less central. The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy is a brilliant contribution to environmental history, science and technology studies, and a host of related fields. Compelling, deeply researched, and thought-provoking, it is a superb reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in US environmental culture."" - Char Miller, editor of Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents ""Jackson's biography of John R. Freeman, famed engineer and lobbyist, explodes the previously simplistic characterization of this controversy over the most famous, foundational dam proposal in US environmental history. The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy marshals astounding research into a narrative that captures the rising tension of a known outcome, an impressive accomplishment."" - Jen Huntley, author of The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular Park

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Donald C. Jackson, Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, is the author of Great American Bridges and Dams.

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