Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of

The rise and fall of William Mulholland, and the story of L.A.’s disastrous dam collapse: “A dramatic saga of ambition, politics, money and betrayal” (Los

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engi

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

It is not the purpose of this work to propose a specific format for the settlement of the city's current difficulties with the valley, to resolve the environmen