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Title: William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles by Catherine Mulholland ISBN: 0-520-23466-9 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A history of Los Angeles and the men that created it.
Comment: This book follows the entire sequence of events that lead the city of Los Angeles from a small agricultural town with a population of 10,000 in 1880 to become one of the major cities in North Americia. I thought that I knew about Mulholland before I read this book. Even today he is a minor legend in southern California. The real story is presented here. This book is well organized, well written, and very objective.
Rating: 3
Summary: Dana Willis
Comment: Catherine Mulholland sets the tone of the book in the preface, where she focuses on putting previous publications in their place, and states her reliance on newspapers of the time. As pointed out in an earlier publication (Water and Power by W. Kahrl) newspapers are an unreliable source of information because they tend to reflect the bias of the publisher at the time. Mr. Kahrl relied on official records and documents whereas Ms. Mulholland relied more on newspaper accounts and less on official documents.
In large part the book covers the life and times of William Mulholland, but it certainly leaves the reader with the impression that he did only good in his lifetime. Unfortunately the book ignores or does not respond to much of the criticism heaped upon Mr. Mulholland by more contemporary publications, and instead focuses on his positive contributions. In this respect the book is not entirely well balanced. Although well written I fear that this book is an attempt by the family to have the final word on the history of a complex man who was more dimensional than the author allows.
Rating: 4
Summary: The history of Los Angeles is the history of it's water
Comment: You would think a biography by a grand-daughter may tend to the less objective side. Catherine Mulholland's work is a referenced account of the fight for municipal control of water, and subsequently power, in the early 1900's in Los Angeles. Mulholland takes you by the hand, almost as if you were on an tour with "The Chief", through Willaim Mulhollands childhood, departure from Ireland, to eventual settlement in Los Angeles. From there she cronicles the water needs of the pueblo (pop. 10,000); Mulhollands rise from digger to the designer of the Los Angeles Aquaduct; his management of the political arena to the St. Francis Dam. It was the 'over success' of Bill Mulholland to bring water to a desert that allowed the expotential growth of Los Angeles in area and character. Discriptions of the water works are fascinating - some surviving parts of it still are in use. If you have ever wondered what the real story was behind the film "Chinatown", this is it.
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Title: Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy (Environmental History Series, No. 3) by Abraham Hoffman ISBN: 0890965099 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rivers in the Desert by Margaret Leslie Davis ISBN: 1587541076 Publisher: Olmstead Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Water and Power by William L. Kahrl ISBN: 0520050681 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930 (Classics in Urban History, Vol 3) by Robert M. Fogelson ISBN: 0520082303 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Los Angeles A to Z: An Encyclopedia of the City and County by Leonard Pitt, Dale Pitt ISBN: 0520205308 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 02 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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