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Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles

By Margaret Leslie Davis

The myth-like story of how one man through daring and engineering genius invented Los Angeles of the future, only to fall tragically from grace. The man was William Mulholland; his creation, the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the tremendous waterway that transformed an arid and sparsely populated town into a thriving city of millions.

 
William Mulholland - Los Angeles

 

WINNER OF THE WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA
GOLDEN SPUR AWARD



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“In this splendid new biography, the first full-length study of its subject, Margaret Leslie Davis has brought forward to memory the one person who, along with Felipe de Neve, deserves the title Founder of the City. Like Los Angeles itself, William Mulholland was at once the great and flawed product of his own imagination and will.”

– Kevin Starr, California State Librarian Emeritus, Author of the “Americans and the California Dream” Series

“In the annals of city building, there are few stories more compelling.”

– Booklist


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