The Water Seekers

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Summary: Nadeau's Work Still Pertinent and Readable
Review: I searched for about a year before finding this book (in the days before Amazon.com) and when I finally found it, I wasn't disappointed. The book is a few decades old now, but the writing style, being clean and un-flowery, is still as accessable today as when it was first written. Deeply informative and enjoyable, it's actually a bit of a page-turner, and is in fact recommended by scholars such as Catherine Mulholland and Dr. J. David Rogers as a fair and serious work documenting the history of Los Angeles' water saga from the 1870's up through the building of the Colorado River Aqueduct for the MWD in the middle of the 20th Century. A must for your California history bookshelf!