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    <body><![CDATA[this book is a stunning chronicle of the damming of america's rivers, mainly in the west. i felt that i had to wade through far too much detail about the people (politicians, newsmen, townfolk, MORMONS...), and their motives, the paradigms of the old west that contributed, the bills, and the agencie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16998661">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating and journalistic look into the way that water has built the West and the barely-believable boondoggles that occur[red:]. Interesting biographical - almost titillating - information on certain bureaucrats and colorful outrage at some of the more egregious episodes of public bilking too.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52459848">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fascinating history of dam-building in the American West.  I did not know that the book would be primarily about dams when I bought it, because the subtitle is &quot;The american west and its disappearing water&quot; which seems like it could be more broad, but I got somewhat intrigued by...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54199727">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[...just a chapter or two in, i already predict this will be one of the more important books i read this decade]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This nonfiction account of our society's utter failure to manage our water resources is the best nonfiction book I've read since I was 16 and obsessed with Carl Sagan.  Read it if you've ever appreciated a wild and scenic river, if you want to know how LA became a sprawling mess, if you want to know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70042300">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish the book were more current however the astute follower of the water issues in our country today should be able to pick up where Reisner leaves off. It is fun to view the areas spoken of in the book with Google Earth, while reading about them. Follow American's great rivers and see the stair-s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72049059">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of those books I've read not once, not twice but three times (and it's 550+ pages!). The first time perhaps twenty years ago...got frustrated trying to remember the time lines and names so read as great fiction. The second time to slow down and try to keep names and timelines in order. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40807073">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Cadillac Desert&quot; is one of those books that causes a person to seriously question &quot;the system&quot; (no matter your ideological affiliation). The book exposes the blantant contradictions and hypocrisy that have permeated the history of the West (which history is the history of water ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14934816">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intelligent, accurate and well researched.  Marc Reisner’s “Cadillac Desert” is more then a story of “The American West and Its Disappearing Water”.   Reisner’s thorough research sums up how the ill human dynamics wreak havoc on our environment over a classical element that is often take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7464889">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Surely the 59 other reviews that are listed below have covered much of what there is to say about &quot;Cadillac Desert&quot;. Resiner has an engaging writing style that veers occasionally into rage and anger. He, um, doesn't much care for the Bureau of Reclamation or the Army Corps of Engineers, al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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