
Water to the Angels
William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created - William Mulholland's Los Angeles aqueduct - a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man whose vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today.
In 1907 Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles - allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-than-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23-million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century.
With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power - including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare - behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before - considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century - Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger-than-life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future.
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Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life. The U.S. government pitted two companies - the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads - against each other in a race for funding, encouraging speed over caution. As its peak the work force approached the size of Civil War armies, with as many as 15,000 workers on each line. The surveyors, the men who picked the route, lived off buffalo, deer, and antelope.
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A tragic waste
- De Joshua Tretakoff en 04-11-03
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Hoover Dam
- An American Adventure
- De: Joseph E. Stevens
- Narrado por: Kevin Charles Minatrea
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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In the spring of 1931, in a rugged desert canyon on the Arizona-Nevada border, an army of workmen began one of the most difficult and daring building projects ever undertaken: the construction of Hoover Dam. Through the worst years of the Great Depression as many as five thousand laborers toiled twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, to erect the huge structure that would harness the Colorado River and transform the American West.
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Enjoyed this book
- De Nancy Ann en 02-18-20
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The Big Roads
- The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
- De: Earl Swift
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 12 h y 30 m
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From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads.
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Lessons from The Big Roads
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12
De: Earl Swift
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Divided Highways
- Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life
- De: Tom Lewis
- Narrado por: Jim D. Johnston
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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In Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the early twentieth century Congress created the Bureau of Public Roads to improve roads and the lives of rural Americans. The Bureau was the forerunner of the Interstate Highway System of 1956, which promoted a technocratic approach to modern road building sometimes at the expense of individual lives, regional characteristics, and the landscape.
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Lots of interesting facts. Poor narration
- De Richard en 06-01-21
De: Tom Lewis
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Barry Grizzard
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.
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Where is the rest of the book?
- De Susie en 10-21-13
De: John M. Barry
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King and Queen of Malibu
- The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
- De: David K. Randall
- Narrado por: Eric Summerer
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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Over a half century, Malibu went from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars. Behind its transformation is the love story of Frederick and May Rindge. He was a Harvard-trained confidant of presidents; she grew up on a hardscrabble Midwestern farm; yet their unlikely bond would shape history.
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dont buy it
- De S. Schoenberger en 03-08-25
De: David K. Randall
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Del Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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The paths of the great American robber barons were paved with riches, and though ordinary citizens paid for them, they also profited. Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century.
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Roy en 04-05-09
De: Les Standiford
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The Men Who United the States
- America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators. Introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree.
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Sarcastic
- De Cynthia Hartman en 06-16-16
De: Simon Winchester
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The Promise of the Grand Canyon
- John Wesley Powell's Perilous Journey and His Vision for the American West
- De: John F. Ross
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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John Wesley Powell’s first descent of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in 1869 counts among the most dramatic chapters in American exploration history. When the Canyon spit out the surviving members of the expedition - starving, battered, and nearly naked - they had accomplished what others thought impossible and finished the exploration of continental America that Lewis and Clark had begun almost 70 years before.
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Parallels
- De Bruce McClenahan en 01-25-19
De: John F. Ross
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Yellow Dirt
- An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed
- De: Judy Pasternak
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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From the 1930s to the 1960s, the United States knowingly used and discarded an entire tribe of people. The Navajo worked unprotected in the uranium mines that fueled the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Long after these mines were abandoned, Navajos in all four corners of the Reservation (which borders Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona) continued grazing their animals on sagebrush flats riddled with uranium that had been blasted from the ground.
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Dirty little secret of nuclear development
- De Buretto en 08-13-20
De: Judy Pasternak
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The Race Underground
- Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway
- De: Doug Most
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
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In the late nineteenth century, as cities like Boston and New York grew larger, the streets became increasingly clogged with horse-drawn carts. When the great blizzard of 1888 brought New York City to a halt, a solution had to be found. Two brothers - Henry Melville Whitney of Boston and William Collins Whitney of New York City - pursued the dream of his city being the first American metropolis to have a subway and the great race was on.
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Informative Cobbled Telling of an Important Story
- De Lynn en 05-21-14
De: Doug Most
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The Mirage Factory
- Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
- De: Gary Krist
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
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Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer; D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture; and Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist.
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Great start, weak completion
- De steve en 05-11-21
De: Gary Krist
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The Great Bridge
- The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 27 h y 24 m
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This monumental book tells the enthralling story of one of the greatest accomplishments in our nation's history, the building of what was then the longest suspension bridge in the world. The Brooklyn Bridge rose out of the expansive era following the Civil War, when Americans believed all things were possible.
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An Historian and not a Novelist
- De Tim en 06-01-12
De: David McCullough
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Fire and Brimstone
- The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
- De: Michael Punke
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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The worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history began a half hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, when fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than 2,000 feet below ground, the fire spewed flames, smoke, and poisonous gas through a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Within an hour more than 400 men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days 164 of them would be dead.
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Fairly Solid Book With Good History
- De Matthew en 08-18-16
De: Michael Punke
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Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California - bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges - seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer; D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture; and Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist.
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Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman.
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This "fascinating history" chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame - followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed.
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Many inaccuracies-do some independent reseach
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J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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Interesting story of California Ag history
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The paths of the great American robber barons were paved with riches, and though ordinary citizens paid for them, they also profited. Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century.
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A Pleasant Surprise
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Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu
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Looking at the island of Palm Beach today, with its unmatched mansions, tony shops, and pristine beaches, one is hard pressed to visualize the dense tangle of Palmetto brush and mangroves that it was when visionary entrepreneur and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler first arrived there in April 1893. With the authority and narrative prose style that has gained Standiford's work widespread acclaim, Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America's Xanadu tells the history of this fabled landscape intertwined with the colorful lives of its famous protagonists.
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Another outstanding book by this author
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- Nick G.
- 07-12-20
Well Presented Concise Story
This book is a as great presentation of well known facts in a new volume. I initally thought I might learn something new. I didn't BUT this is is a FANTASTIC BOOK that combines the volumes of what I realized I knew from many sources. It's a GREAT read and listen and I will enjoy it many times over!
I should add I have been a student of Mulholland and the LA Aqueduct for decades. Listening to this book I could hear multiple familiar stories, facts, figures, etc. All of a sudden I realized this was the first complilation of those many, many sources of material in one read! All the facts and material all met with every other book, pamphlet, report, etc. I have read over the years.
A great addition to my visual and audible library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! It makes you realize this "When you touch water in the west you touch everything" as Colorado US Rep Wayne Aspinall said.
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retelling of a failed dam evokes memories of the Hurricane Helena events in 2024
I just finished this book in the spirit of visiting LA…
Learned some interesting water history
There is a retelling of a failed damn… a pilot stated after flying above it: won’t need rescue but will need body retrievals
Broke my heart cause all I could think of was hurricane Helena
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- Joe
- 05-06-18
Great story of building of the aquaduct.
great story of William Mulholland's life and the building of Los Angeles aquaduct. Very compelling.
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- Diane Harris Hara
- 05-11-15
A must read for ALL Californians.
Great story and narration. The drama and finagling that took place to bring water to Southern California is a story all Californians should learn from. We need to have gratitude for the water we have and practice stewardship for the birthplace of this precious resource.
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- C. Jackson
- 04-09-21
Should be required reading for every high schooler
A great follow up to the flood of 1927. I believe this book treats the story of Mr Mulholland with the respect and admiration due him. Everyone looks for a scapegoat when there is malfunction of anything. In this case he may have been correct when he suspected explosives by those angry about LA transferring water from NoCal. And then the theory of the east side giving way first also brings facts that the initial commissions were happy to avoid. Corruption in groups. But as for this man, he had a vision that no one believed could be undertaken. And he was not dissuaded no matter how impossible the challenge. He was made of grit. Wish i could have met him.
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- Herder Deb
- 10-17-22
Most interesting look at a piece of history.
Loved it.
An excellent look at LA and the history of their water.
A refreshing insight into W. Mulholland.
Highly recommend it.
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- Jonathan
- 12-21-23
Great book
If you haven’t read the authors book about the Key West Railroad, be sure to read it. This is an awesome book that covers the water issues in Los Angeles Valley. Just enough in depth and enough coverage but not overbearing. Really good listen well written 
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- Hans Rigelman
- 10-11-17
Mulholland - LA's Chief Water Engineer
Fascinating story of the history of Los Angeles and one man's plan to provide water for his adopted city. Intrigue, politics, and even violence could not stop Mulholland's mission to build the Los Angeles aquaduct.
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- Therese Verner
- 01-29-18
fascinating historical biography
for anyone interested in the history behind the Los Angeles Aqueduct and its chief engineer designer and Creator, Mulholland, this is the book for you! the narration is captivating, and the story very interesting especially if you live in California.
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- Zahid Ahmad
- 04-19-17
Wonderful Informative Book
Must listen for those that are looking for a highly informative but non boring book.
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