Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
The American West and Its Disappearing Water

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“The definitive work on the West’s water crisis.” Newsweek

“A revealing, absorbing, often amusing and alarming report on where billions of [taxpayer’s] dollars have gone—and where a lot more are going…[Reisner] has put the story together in trenchant form.” Gladwin Hill, New York Times Book Review

“Cadillac Desert is timely and of national importance. Hurry up and read this book.” Washington Post

“Masterful…Among the most influential environmental books published by an American since Silent Spring.” San Francisco Examiner

“Essential background reading for anyone who cares about the drought ravaging the West and the region’s prospects for changing course before it is too late.” Daily Beast

“Beautifully written and meticulously researched.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“[This] timely and important book should be required reading for all citizens.” Publishers Weekly

“Cadillac Desert describes serious, perhaps fatal threats to the miraculous desert civilization of the West…Take[s] effective aim at the vested interests that perpetuate unsound water resource development.” Library Journal

“When archaelogists from another planet sift through the bleached bones of our civilization, they may conclude that our temples were dams, says Reisner in this angry, exhaustive and gracefully written account of America’s quest to turn the inhospitable, irredeemably dry West into a Garden of Eden…Not the first book on the subject, but one of the best.” Kirkus Reviews