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Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country—shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had become by the 1930s a massive public works and regional development program, with an emphasis on the urban as much as on the rural West.
A study in government, as well as the relationship between law and economic development in the American West, beginning with fights over water in the California gold fields and looking at water management during the next 50 years. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR