| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Book Review

William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles. By Catherine Mulholland. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xxi + 411 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35; £22.)

Catherine Mulholland, granddaughter of William Mulholland, has contributed an important addition to the history of water in Los Angeles. Less a biography of William Mulholland than an accounting of the city's water history, she emphasizes the theme that L. A.'s water shortages were real and that only through the foresight of engineers like Mulholland was the problem surmounted. Three-quarters of the book is devoted to the years preceding and during the building of the Owens Valley Aqueduct; it concludes with treatment of the St. Francis Dam disaster that claimed over 400 lives, for which Mulholland assumed responsibility. The story is thus framed around Mulholland's years of service—his rise, triumph, and demise—and is often told through his perspective (via his office files, family papers, as well as newspaper accounts). . . .

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