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Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935
by Pisani, Donald J.
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Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country-shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had become by the 1930s a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West.
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Pisani, Donald J.
- ISBN: 9780520230309
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.46 x 1.28
- Number Of Pages: 408
- Publication Year: 2002