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Wilkman, Jon, author.
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Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River.
Dam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Floodplains -- California.
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Floodpath : the dead...
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Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman.
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Wilkman, Jon, author.
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Subjects
Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River.
Dam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Floodplains -- California.
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781620409152 (hardback) :
1620409151 (hardback)
Description:
326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
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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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363.3493 Wilkman
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