William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

by Catherine Mulholland

Book Overview

William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520217241
• ISBN13: 9780520217249
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A Complete Bore

Sorry I bought it, hoping for a great book, and I read almost everything of this genre. This was a bad buy I just gambled on. It's like reading a dissertation for a college class BUT by a Mulholland family member. Tangled up in footnotes, theories, imagined situations should something have gone either way -- I gave it to our local library after 3 sit-downs. Just terribly dull, boring, like reading a bad encyclopedia. Sorry Mulholland family, you had an opportunity. You blew it. You buried the most important part of Mulhollands legacy and tucked it away with deflection, that maybe it really wasn't his fault (it was) -- 400+ people died because of his lack of engineering knowledge. Instead its a family love letter. Don't buy this book.