Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
by
Wilkman, Jon, author.
Title
:
Floodpath : the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
Author
:
Wilkman, Jon, author.
Summary
:
"Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten. With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives."--Jacket.
Contents
:
Monday -- The Chief and the City of the Angels -- "There it is, take it!" -- Holding back the future -- A monster in the dark -- No time for nightmares -- The dead zone -- Sympathy, anger, and amends -- Arguing over the ruins -- Los Angeles on trial -- Rewinding time -- Hasty conclusions and high dams -- Paying the price and moving on -- Unfinished business and historical amnesia -- Charley's obsession and computer time machines -- After the fall.
Physical Description
:
326 pages ; 25 cm
Subject Term
:
Floods -- California -- Santa Clara River.
Dam failures -- California -- History -- 20th century.
Floodplains -- California.
Geographic Term
:
Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
Publisher
:
Bloomsbury Press,
Publication Date
:
2016
ISBN
:
9781620409152
9781620409169
Publication Information
:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
Call Number
:
363.34 WILKMAN
| Item Barcode | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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| 33607003192815 | Adult Nonfiction | 363.34 WILKMAN | Checked In |