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Heavy Ground: William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster by Donald C. J
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ISBN-13
9781948908887
Book Title
Heavy Ground
ISBN
9781948908887
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Heavy Ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
Item Height
1in
Author
Norris Hundley, Donald C. Jackson, Norris Hundley Jr.
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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Minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending more than twelve billion gallons of water surging through Southern California's Santa Clara Valley, killing some four hundred people and causing the greatest civil engineering disaster in twentieth-century American history. In this carefully researched work, Norris Hundley jr. and Donald C. Jackson provide a riveting narrative exploring the history of the ill-fated dam and the person directly responsible for its flawed design--William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer of the Los Angeles municipal water system. Employing copious illustrations and intensive research, Heavy Ground traces the interwoven roles of politics and engineering in explaining how the St. Francis Dam came to be built and the reasons for its collapse. Hundley and Jackson also detail the terror and heartbreak brought by the flood, legal claims against the City of Los Angeles, efforts to restore the Santa Clara Valley, political factors influencing investigations of the failure, and the effect of the disaster on congressional approval of the future Hoover Dam. Underlying it all is a consideration of how the dam--and the disaster--were inextricably intertwined with the life and career of William Mulholland. Ultimately, this thoughtful and nuanced account of the dam's failure reveals how individual and bureaucratic conceit fed Los Angeles's desire to control vital water supplies in the booming metropolis of Southern California.

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Publisher
University of Nevada Press
ISBN-10
1948908883
ISBN-13
9781948908887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Norris Hundley, Donald C. Jackson, Norris Hundley Jr.
Publication Name
Heavy Ground : William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
448 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz

Additional Product Features

Age Range
14-Up
Lc Classification Number
Tc557.C3s245 2020
Grade from
Ninth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"[ Heavy Ground ] does something unexpected. It opens a new perspective onto William Mulholland... [bringing him] to life in all his sharp-elbowed, stubborn glory, saddened and perplexed by the St. Francis Dam debacle yet prideful until the end." -- Wall Street Journal "A meticulously researched... case study of the catastrophic failure north of Los Angeles in March 1928 of the St. Francis Dam that killed 400-450 people... [ Heavy Ground ] is exemplary for its use of previously unavailable original sources, particularly the L.A. Coroner's Inquest report." -- Pacific Historical Review "A gripping account of this ill-fated dam and the person most directly responsible for its flawed design: William Mulholland." -- Technology and Culture "Carefully-crafted, exhaustively-researched, liberally-illustrated, and engagingly-written... an important and welcome addition to the pantheon of scholarship on California Water History." -- Southern California Quarterly "Above all, [Hundley and Jackson] tell the story of the tragedy itself, the testimonies and recollections of survivors, the arguments over reparations for property damage and lives lost. Forget about Chinatown . This book sets a standard for scholarship that scholars will have to meet in their own research into Los Angeles' controversial water history." -- W estern Historical Quarterly "For its lucid explanation of the politics surrounding the [St. Francis] disaster, its minute-by-minute description of the dam's final moments, and ensuing tidal wave that murderously swept down the valley, and its meticulous and careful analysis of the dam's design, construction, and failure, Heavy Ground joins the list of [Hacker Prize] books displaying "exceptional scholarship" while reaching for readers "beyond the academy." Additionally, the book superbly integrates the history of technology with social, cultural, and economic contexts." -- Sally Hacker Prize citation, "[ Heavy Ground ] does something unexpected. It opens a new perspective onto William Mulholland... [bringing him] to life in all his sharp-elbowed, stubborn glory, saddened and perplexed by the St. Francis Dam debacle yet prideful until the end." -- Wall Street Journal "A meticulously researched... case study of the catastrophic failure north of Los Angeles in March 1928 of the St. Francis Dam that killed 400-450 people... [ Heavy Ground ] is exemplary for its use of previously unavailable original sources, particularly the L.A. Coroner's Inquest report." -- Pacific Historical Review "A gripping account of this ill-fated dam and the person most directly responsible for its flawed design: William Mulholland." -- Technology and Culture "Carefully-crafted, exhaustively-researched, liberally-illustrated, and engagingly-written... an important and welcome addition to the pantheon of scholarship on California Water History." -- Southern California Quarterly "Above all, [Hundley and Jackson] tell the story of the tragedy itself, the testimonies and recollections of survivors, the arguments over reparations for property damage and lives lost. Forget about Chinatown . This books sets a standard for scholarship that scholars will have to meet in their own research into Los Angeles' controversial water history." -- W estern Historical Quarterly "For its lucid explanation of the politics surrounding the [St. Francis] disaster, its minute-by-minute description of the dam's final moments, and ensuing tidal wave that murderously swept down the valley, and its meticulous and careful analysis of the dam's design, construction, and failure, Heavy Ground joins the list of [Hacker Prize] books displaying "exceptional scholarship" while reaching for readers "beyond the academy." Additionally, the book superbly integrates the history of technology with social, cultural, and economic contexts." -- Sally Hacker Prize citation
Table of Content
Preface 1 Prologue: 'A Misty Haze over Everything' 5 Chapter 1: Mulholland: A Man and an Aqueduct 9 Chapter 2: Th e Dam: Site Selection and Design 37 Chapter 3: Th e Dam: Construction, Operation, Failure 81 Chapter 4: Disaster Unleashed 129 Chapter 5: Civic Responsibility and Reparations 201 Chapter 6: Th e Politics of Safety: Inquest and Investigations 233 Chapter 7: Dam Building after the Flood 311 Chapter 8: Postscript: William Mulholland 323 Appendix A: How Fast Could the Reservoir Have Been Lowered? 337 Appendix B: Was Failure Inevitable? 341 Acknowledgments 345 About the Authors 346 Notes 347 Index 425
Copyright Date
2020
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Natural Disasters, Civil / Dams & Reservoirs, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Natural Resources
Lccn
2020-028474
Dewey Decimal
363.34/930979493
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Nature, History

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