The story from the American West may be the story of the relentless search for a precious resource: water. It really is an account of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water privileges, of ecologic and financial catastrophe. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured from the guarantee of heaven, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business passions to ensure the city’s development. He files the bitter rivalry between two federal government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the united states Army Corps of Technical engineers, in the competition to transform the West.Based on greater than a decade of study, Cadillac Desert is normally a sensational exposé and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of Eden-an Eden which may be only a mirage.