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Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water (Penguin Books, 1986 Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award) Cadillac Desert is a comprehensive history of water usage and manipulation in the American West. Reisner details the power, politics and personalities behind a hundred years of water rights and the building of massive dams and viaducts throughout the arid West. This book gets behind the facts with a glaring look at the hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds spent on water projects of questionable value in relation to their cost. A model for any journalistic work in terms of its detailed research and comprehensive coverage of such a vital and daunting subject, Cadillac Desert is dense with information and adroitly raises the important questions of "why?" and "for whom?" "Cadillac Desert is of timely and of national importance. Water is important to us all. Lawmakers, taxpayers, hurry up and read this book." _ The Washington Post "Thoughtful and sprightly Reisner's book deserves to be widely read by political leaders, as well as environmentalists and just about anyone interested in water policies After reading Cadillac Desert, it's hard to be indifferent about the importance of water." _Christian Science Monitor "A revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report on where billions of taxpayers' dollars have gone _ and where a lot more are going Reisner has put the story together in trenchant form." _The New York Times Book Review "The scale of this book is as staggering as that of the Hoover Dam. Beautifully written and meticulously researched, it spans our century-long effort to moisten the West." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch MORE: Amazon Cadillac Desert was made into 4-part documentary that won the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award Read an interview with Marc Reisner |
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