Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (624 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0875651917 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 386 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Valerie Giles, Ph.D. (giles@mag-net.com) said Politics of Water Resource Management. August brings extensive expertise concerning the history of water and hydroelectric power development in the Southwestern United States. The story of water politics in the American southwest is instructive for the governments of both the United States and Canada.Management of North America's water resource is poised to become the defining issue in Canadian-American relations in the twenty first century. Certainly, that issue will dominate tr. "A miracle it was!" according to Bill Sonsin. Author Jack August tells an engrossing tale of the politics of water in the American southwest which is virtually the same as the past, present, and future of this region. Arizonan Carl Hayden became the Arizona's first congressman (when Arizona only had one congressman) upon statehood in 1912 and moved to the the U.S. Senate in 1927 where he remained until retiring in 1969. In today's era of sound bites and short attention spans, Hayden lab
He also serves as professor in the graduate studies program at Prescott College. . Historian, Fulbright scholar, and native Arizonan JACK L. He has published extensively on the American West. AUGUST, JR., is a professor of history at Northern Arizona University-Yavapai in the office of statewide programs
Hayden is an important figure in the American Southwest, and as Bruce Babbitt says, "Perhaps my friend, Senator Barry Goldwater, put it best, 'Let me put it this simple way, I hope that my service to my country and my state equals a small fraction of what Carl Hayden has provided in both areas.'" . From the Publisher The Texas Christian University Press is proud to publish August's latest novel on Carl Hayden and hydropolitics
The 1968 authorization of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) highlights Hayden's efforts for this lifestream of the Southwest. Issues of the development of the Colorado River occupied the majority of his congressional work. Jack August, Jr., takes the reader on a comprehensive journey of the politician's career -- through visions of the nineteenth century, the accomplishments of the twentieth century, and the probable implications for the approaching millennium.. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1911, Hayden began a fifty-seven-year stint in the U.S. Combining Hayden's childhood hopes and congressional endeavors, the CAP secured future economic and population growth by making possible the distribution of water to the growing urban and suburban areas of Phoenix and Tucson.Vision in the Desert binds the works of this western lawmaker to the expansion of the American Southwest and chronicles the politics in the region. Congress, serving as a Democrati