Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown
Awards:   Short-listed for Southern California Independent Booksellers Best Nonfiction Book 2016 (United States)
Author:   Marc Weingarten
Publisher:   Rare Bird Books
ISBN:  

9781947856349


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for Southern California Independent Booksellers Best Nonfiction Book 2016 (United States)

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Author:   Marc Weingarten
Publisher:   Rare Bird Books
Imprint:   Rare Bird Books
ISBN:  

9781947856349


ISBN 10:   1947856340
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 May 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

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Finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award Marc Weingarten's new book, Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown, neatly encapsulates the complex background of civic battles (the so-called water wars ) between L.A. and the Owens Valley that led up to that moment and which helped to create the sprawling megalopolis we live in now. --LA Weekly .. .for media cognoscenti, the portions about [Harrison Gray] Otis, his soon-to-be-competitor Boyce and an enterprising delivery man named Harry Chandler will provide added enjoyment. --Adweek


"Finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award ""Marc Weingarten’s new book, Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown, neatly encapsulates the complex background of civic battles (the so-called “water wars”) between L.A. and the Owens Valley that led up to that moment and which helped to create the sprawling megalopolis we live in now."" —LA Weekly ""...for media cognoscenti, the portions about [Harrison Gray] Otis, his soon-to-be-competitor Boyce and an enterprising delivery man named Harry Chandler will provide added enjoyment."" —Adweek"


Finalist for the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award Marc Weingarten's new book, Thirsty: William Mulholland, California Water, and the Real Chinatown, neatly encapsulates the complex background of civic battles (the so-called water wars ) between L.A. and the Owens Valley that led up to that moment and which helped to create the sprawling megalopolis we live in now. -LA Weekly ...for media cognoscenti, the portions about [Harrison Gray] Otis, his soon-to-be-competitor Boyce and an enterprising delivery man named Harry Chandler will provide added enjoyment. -Adweek


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Marc Weingarten is the author of Station to Station and The Gang that Wouldn't Write Straight; the co-editor of the anthologies Yes is the Answer and Here She Comes Now, and producer of the films God Bless Ozzy Osbourne and The Other One. He lives in Malibu.

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