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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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
