{"product_id":"cadillac-desert-isbn-9780140178241","title":"Cadillac Desert","description":"\u003cb\u003e“I’ve been thinking a lot about \u003ci\u003eCadillac Desert\u003c\/i\u003e in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, January 20,2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The definitive work on the West's water crisis.\" \u003ci\u003e--Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. In his landmark book, \u003ci\u003eCadillac Desert,\u003c\/i\u003e Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. Based on more than a decade of research, \u003ci\u003eCadillac Desert\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.Introduction: A Semidesert with a Desert Heart\u003cbr\u003eChapter One: A Country of Illusion\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: The Red Queen\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: First Causes\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: An American Nile (I)\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: The Go-Go Years\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six: Rivals in Crime\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven: Dominy\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight: An American Nile (II)\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine: The Peanut Farmer and the Pork Barrel\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten: Chinatown\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven: Those Who Refuse to Learn...\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve: Things Fall Apart\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Civilization, If You Can Keep It\u003cbr\u003eAfterword to the Revised Edition\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes and Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\"Masterful. . .Among the most influential environmental books published by an American since \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--San Francisco Examiner \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Essential background reading for anyone who cares about the drought ravaging the West and the region's prospects for changing course before it is too late.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Mark Hertsgaard, \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Timely and of national interest. . . . Resiner captures Western water history in Cinemascope and Technicolor. . . . lawmakers, taxpayers, hurry up and read this book.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The Washington Post  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The scale of this book is as staggering as that of Hoover Dam. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it spans our century-long effort to moisten the arid West. . . . Anyone thinking of moving west of the hundredth meridian should read this book before they call their real estate agent.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--St. Louis Post-Dispatch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report on where billions of [taxpayers'] dollars have gone-- and where a lot more are going . . . [Reisner] has put the story together in trenchant form.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--The New York Times Book Review  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Reisner\u003c\/b\u003e worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1979, he received an Alicia J. Patterson Journalism Fellowship and began the research for \u003ci\u003eCadillac Desert. \u003c\/i\u003eHe was also the author of \u003ci\u003eGame Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate\u003c\/i\u003e. Resisner died in 2000.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLawrie Mott\u003c\/b\u003e, formerly an environmental heath scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, lives in a Bay Area county that receives all its water from local supplies. From Marc Reisner, her late husband, she learned about water in the West at their dinner table and during long drives through western states. Mott received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her M.S. from Yale.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300727443685,"sku":"NP9780140178241","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140178241.jpg?v=1767723257","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cadillac-desert-isbn-9780140178241","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}