The Source, Martin Doyle
The Source, Martin Doyle
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The Source
How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

Author: Martin Doyle

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 10 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018


Synopsis

In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment?over federalism, taxation, regulation, conservation, and development.

Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in interstate river navigation, the origins of the Army Corps of Engineers, the discovery of gold in 1848, and the construction of the Hoover Dam and the TVA during the New Deal, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina. And through encounters with experts all over the country?a Mississippi River tugboat captain, an Erie Canal lock operator, a western rancher fighting for water rights?Doyle reveals how we've dammed, raised, rerouted, channelized, and even 're-meandered" our rivers.

About Martin Doyle

Martin Doyle is director of the Water Policy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and a professor of river science and policy at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment. He lives in North Carolina.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anita

I told my juris-doctored manager that I was reading this and he said, "Gibbons vs. Ogden?" And I was like, yeah, have you read this?" He was like, no, but then added, "Mississippi river boats? FEMA?" And I was like yeah, did you write this? Mr. T (my Father) recommended this book to me and like all of......more

Goodreads review by Paul

The Source is a well written book. It details the history of rivers and water in this country. It explains how the water we use for everyday use evolved.......more