Great Projects: The Building of America - A Tale of Two Rivers (2002)

Synopsis: The four part series GREAT PROJECTS studies architectural and engineering ideas that were crucial in the development of the United States. This volume concentrates on the floodways and levees of... The four part series GREAT PROJECTS studies architectural and engineering ideas that were crucial in the development of the United States. This volume concentrates on the floodways and levees of the Mississippi River as well as the massive Hoover Dam structure. With great impacts on local communites that were directly affected plus being important to the nation as a whole, these projects caused much political debate while in devlopment. Once accomplished, these epic achievements gave America an unusual control over two of her major rivers, the Mississippi and the Colorado. [More]