In Big Dams and Other Dreams, Donald Wolf (University of Oklahoma Press,
$27.95 , ISBN 0 8061 2853 4) tells of the engineers who built the Hoover
dam on the Arizona/Nevada border in 1936 and spawned a billion-dollar global
business. 鈥淎 free-wheeling saga of American industrial might鈥� or the biggest
pork barrel of all time, it is at any rate a piece of history. Today in the US,
they are tearing down dams, not building them.
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