| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.1

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Book Review

Water and American Government: The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902–1935. By Donald J. Pisani. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xviii + 394 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95.)

Few historians have as firm a grasp on the history of water policy and politics in the American West as Donald J. Pisani. With this book, the author solidifies his reputation as the leading scholar of the field. In this, the second book of a projected three volume history, Pisani extends the rich scholarly treatment he instituted with To Reclaim A Divided West (Albuquerque, 1992). In Water and American Government, he again highlights the importance of the West's sub-regions in vying for water development, and the tug of water between the federal government and the states over water rights. While Pisani does not deny the growing role of the federal government over water early in the twentieth century, he demonstrates that establishing that role was fraught with difficulties.

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