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At the Base of the Giant's Throat
There are ninety thousand registered dams in the United States,
fifty thousand of them classified as \"major.\" Nearly all of this
infrastructure was built during a forty-year period, from 1932 to
1972, in an era of public investment and political consensus that
seems inconceivable today. These incredible structures-sometimes
called the American Pyramids-helped the country rebound from the
Great Depression, brought water and electricity to enormous
reaches, helped win World War II for the Allies, and became the
basis for decades of prosperous stability. At the Base of the
Giant's Throat dives into the history of dam-building in the
United States as natural waterscapes have been replaced with
engineered environments and the bone-dry West became America's
produce aisle. From the Folsom Powerhouse cranking sixty-hertz
alternating current in the 1890s to the iconic Hoover Dam and the
gargantuan Grand Coulee Dam, Anthony R. Palumbi lays out how dams
and water projects changed the North American continent forever and
laid the groundwork for an age of unprecedented prosperity. He also
describes how institutional complacency corrupted the ethos of
public power and public works-and how the influence of rich
landowners undermined the credibility of that ethos. Palumbi shows
how our nation's ability to cope with natural disasters has been
fatally compromised by underinvestment in decaying infrastructure.
He argues that a livable future demands investment on a scale few
Americans currently grasp. To win that future we must interrogate
the history of our most vital public works: the dams, canals, and
levees helping to channel life's most precious molecule. At the
Base of the Giant's Throat tells the story of America through
its water, sweeping across five hundred years of history, from the
swashbuckling exploits of French colonist Samuel de Champlain to
the nightmarish urban flooding of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane
Sandy.
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