Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the New American West

"From the Colorado River projects that feed Los Angeles's mighty municipal arteries to the massive coal fields that scar Utah's desert plains, Gottlieb and Wiley reveal a stunning, sobering story of nature manipulated for the few, by the few. Over and over, they find dams we don't need and power plants we don't want, built with tax dollars we can't get back." - L.A. Reader An interesting read concerning the growth of Western America. Minor wear to back cover, slight dog-earing on bottom corner, but otherwise the book was never used.

"A stunning, sobering story of nature manipulated for the few, by the few. Over and over, they find dams we don't need and power plants we don't want, built with tax dollars we can't get back."—L.A. Reader"The book is both ambitious and largely successful. Wiley and Gottlieb paint a fairly grim picture of manipulation by government and influential private interests of the mighty resources of the Southwest, from water to the labor force."—Journal of Arizona History"A valuable interpretation of the modern Southwest."—Arizona and the West