Floodpath the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles

Examines how the controversial 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam caused major geological changes that rendered Los Angeles one of America's largest cities and served as a lesson to human limitation.

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Main Author: Wilkman, Jon (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
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245 1 0 |a Floodpath :  |b the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles /  |c Jon Wilkman. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b Bloomsbury Press,  |c 2016. 
300 |a 326 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 25 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index. 
505 0 |a Monday -- The Chief and the City of the Angels -- "There it is, take it!" -- Holding back the future -- A monster in the dark -- No time for nightmares -- The dead zone -- Sympathy, anger, and amends -- Arguing over the ruins -- Los Angeles on trial -- Rewinding time -- Hasty conclusions and high dams -- Paying the price and moving on -- Unfinished business and historical amnesia -- Charley's obsession and computer time machines -- After the fall. 
520 |a Examines how the controversial 1928 failure of the St. Francis Dam caused major geological changes that rendered Los Angeles one of America's largest cities and served as a lesson to human limitation. 
651 0 |a Saint Francis Dam (Calif.) 
650 0 |a Floods  |z California  |z Santa Clara River. 
650 0 |a Dam failures  |z California  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Floodplains  |z California. 
651 0 |a Los Angeles (Calif.)  |x History  |y 20th century. 
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