Walton Reporter Scrapbook
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Release : 1932
Category : Delaware County (N.Y.)
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Release : 1932
Category : Delaware County (N.Y.)
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Author : Jared Orsi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520930088
Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history—the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. He advances a new paradigm—the urban ecosystem—for understanding the city's complex and unpredictable waterways and other issues that are sure to play a large role in future planning. As he traces the flow of water from sky to sea, Orsi brings together many disparate and intriguing pieces of the story, including local and national politics, the little-known San Gabriel Dam fiasco, the phenomenal growth of Los Angeles, and, finally, the influence of environmentalism. Orsi provocatively widens his vision toward other cities for which Los Angeles may offer a lesson—both of things gone wrong and a glimpse of how they might be improved.
Author : Thomas C. Leonard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 1986-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195365089
Many books have shown that journalists have political power, but none have offered a more wide-ranging account of how they got it. The Power of the Press is a pioneering look at the birth of political journalism. Before the American Revolution, Thomas Leonard notes, the press in the colonies was a timid enterprise, poorly protected by law and shy of government. Newspapers helped make the Revolution, but they were not fully aware of the way they could fit into a democracy. It was only in the nineteenth century that journalists learned to tell the stories and supply the pictures that made politics a national preoccupation. Leonard traces the rise of political reporting through some fascinating corridors of American history: the exposes of the Revolutionary era, the "unfeeling accuracy" of Congressional reporting, the role of the New York Times and Harper's Weekly in attacking New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, and the emergence of "muckraking" at the beginning of our century. The increasing power of the press in the political arena has been a double-edged sword, Leonard argues. He shows that while political reporting nurtured the broad interest in politics that made democracy possible, this journalism became a threat to political participation.
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Dairying
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Author : Julie Malnig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 1995-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814755283
Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that has found renewed popularity in recent years.
Author : Dorothy Moore Lewis
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Page : 114 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Radio broadcasting
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Morgan County (Ind.)
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Author : League of Nations. Council
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Debts, Public
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Author : Walton Blodgett
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Painting, American
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Page : 978 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Numismatics
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