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Author: Jerry Borrowman
Model: 1116037
Price: $16.95 

 (Published by Black Canyon Press) It’s 1931 and men are desperate for jobs. A lucky few will get to work in the searing heat of the Nevada desert on the massive Hoover Dam, the single largest public works project in history. Their goal is to tame the mighty Colorado River with a dam that will create the largest manmade lake in the world. Life and Death at Hoover Dam tells the story of a handful of these men, who together fight the river with all their might, and perhaps their lives, as flash floods threaten to destroy all they have worked to accomplish. Meet the Conroy brothers: David, an engineer who works directly with Frank Crowe, the world’s foremost builder of dams; and Pete, his older brother who is as wild as the Colorado River itself. Sean O’Donnell, a scrappy Irishman who worked on the Empire State Building, whose family desperately wants him to come home. And Tony Capelli, a farmer from southern California whose land will become verdant and productive once the flow of Colorado River water is assured. But prejudice is rampant against those of foreign birth. In the end, these men and the 20,000 others who worked on the dam will build a monument that will make possible the palm trees of Los Angeles and the desert oasis of Phoenix. This is the story of their lives—the men who built the matchless Hoover Dam. Softcover, $16.95 6˝ X 9˝, 272 pages ISBN 970-0-98438-360-3 Stock# 01116037