Cadillac Desert
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Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
4 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2018–2025.
What people on Hacker News said
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner is about America’s water infrastructure and does an incredible job of outlining the mind-blowing scale of it all as well as the political / historical context in which bureaucracies like the Bureau of Reclamation were able to build 30,000+ dams across nearly every instance of flowing water in the American West.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things 2025 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: What are the most eye-opening textbooks you have ever read? 2023 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? 2018 · 1 recommendation