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Author: Michael Hiltzik
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: B004AYCWZ8

Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. Download Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam's conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America's efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces. For embodied in the dam's striking machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation's very culture-the shift from the concept of Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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