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The author of Last Train to Heaven tells the storyline of the greatest public water project ever before created - William Mulholland's LA aqueduct - a tale of Gilded Time ambition, hubris, greed, and one established man whose eyesight shaped the future and is constantly on the impact us today. In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil anatomist feats ever sold: the aqueduct that carried water 223 kilometers from the Sierra Nevada mountains to LA - allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to expand into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-than-life engineer and the amazing scope of his six-year, $23-million project that would convert a region, circumstances, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and vibrant detail, Normal water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and electric power - including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare - behind this remarkable event. At a time when the importance of water has been recognized as nothing you've seen prior - considered by many experts to be the fundamental reference of the twenty-first century - Normal water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of any fabled period, the might of any larger-than-life individual, and the size of a invaluable construction project and sheds critical light on a history that offers insights for our future.
