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Dam! : water, power, politics, and preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park
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- Creator
- John Warfield Simpson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xxiv, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780375422317, 0375422315
- OCLC
- ocm57349121
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index.
- Pt. 1. The origins of Yosemite National Park -- 1. The struggle for the valley -- 2. Olmsted, Muir, and the state reserve -- 3. Pinchot, the park, and the conservation movement -- 4. Thodore Roosevelt; the park's revision -- Pt. 2. The Hetch Hetchy controversy, past and present -- 5. Spring Valley and the boomtown politics of water -- 6. James Duval Phelan and the imperial dream -- 7. The private debate over Hetch Hetchy -- 8. A national cause celebre -- 9. The political outcome -- 10. Competing claims for water -- 11. Mismanaging the dream -- 12. Constructing the engineering marvel -- 13. The Raker Act's ignored mandate -- 14. PG&E and the politics of public power -- 15. Restoring the promise -- 16. Old issues; a new dream