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In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how waterways have often been the foundation of arguments in the centre of the American experiment - over federalism, taxation, legislation, conservation, and development. Doyle instructs the epic report of America and its rivers, from the US Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the roots of the Military Corps of Engineers, the discovery of platinum in 1848, and the engineering of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the inability of the levees in Hurricane Katrina. And through encounters with experts all over the country - a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Canal lock operator, a traditional western rancher struggling with for water protection under the law - Doyle unveils how we've dammed, lifted, rerouted, channelized, and even "re-meandered" our waterways.
