Cover of Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles

by Les Standiford

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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition,…