Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam

As breathtaking today as when it was completed, Hoover Dam ranks among America's most awe-inspiring, if dubious, achievements. This epic story of the dam-from conception to design to construction-by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik exposes the tremendous hardships and accomplishments of the men on the ground-and in the air-who built the dam and the demonic drive of Frank Crowe, the boss who pushed them beyond endurance. It is a tale of the tr...