Colossus : Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

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Hoover Dam (or Boulder Dam, whichever you prefer) is indeed an engineering marvel. To get a complete history of the structure, you need to know about machinery—the machinery built to construct the dam, the political machinery involved in getting it funded, and the internal machinery of the men an...

from santhony

I'm a big fan of history, and especially enjoy reading histories of some of the biggest projects and/or events of American history. Stephen Ambrose and David McCollough are two of my favorite authors in this genre. Ambrose's accounts of the Lewis and Clarke expedition and the building of the tran...

from marshapetry

Excellent book, excellent narrator. I didn't think a book on building a dam could keep interesting for so many hours (audiobook) but this book did it. Includes history of prior dams, and dam breaks, in the US that led up to the engineering designs of Hoover dam - that part was quite interesting, ...

from addunn3

Interesting telling of the building of Hoover Dam. Required reading before you visit this landmark!

from LisCarey

In the late 1920s, as we were hurtling toward the Great Depression, and the early 1930s, as we were struggling through it, the United States embarked on one of the greatest engineering projects in history. Hiltzik follows the conception, design, and building of the Hoover Dam from the first Europ...