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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wilkman, Jon, author.     Subjects     Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River.     Dam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century.     Floodplains -- California.     Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)     Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wilkman, Jon, author.       by title:      Floodpath : the dead...         MARC Display

Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles / Jon Wilkman. by 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.3493 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 363.3493 Wilkman Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 363.3493 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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