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'A Tale of Two Rivers' Bibliography

Barry, John, Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America (Simon & Schuster, 1997)

Cowdrey, Albert E., Land's End: A History of the New Orleans District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1977)

Hosmer, Helen, "Triumph and Failure in the Imperial Valley," in The Grand Colorado, ed., T.H. Watkins (American West Publishing, 1969)

Percy, W.A., Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (Knopf, 1941)

Mills, Gary B., Of Men and Rivers: The Story of the Vicksburg District (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1977)

Smith, Richard Norton, An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Hebert Hoover (Simon & Schuster, 1984)

Stevens, Joseph E., Hoover Dam: An American Adventure (University of Oklahoma Press, 1988)

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'Electric Nation' Bibliography

Friedel, Robert, and Israel, Paul, Edison's Electric Light: and Biography of an Invention (Rutgers University Press, 1986)

Hughes, Thomas P., American Genesis (Viking Penguin, 1989)

Platt, Harold, The Electric City: Energy and the Growth of the Chicago Area (University of Chicago Press, 1991)

McCraw, Thomas K., TVA and the Power Fight, 1933-1939 (Lippincott, 1971)

Morgan, Arthur, The Making of the TVA (Prometheus Books, 1974)

Talbert, Roy, Jr., FDR's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the TVA (University of Mississippi Press, 1987)

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'Bridging New York' Bibliography

Billington, David, The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering (Basic Books, 1983)

Doig, Jameson W., Empire on the Hudson: Entrepreneurial Vision and Political Power at the Port of New York Authority (Columbia University Press, 2000)

Jackson, Donald C., Great American Bridges and Dams (The Preservation Press, 1988)

Petroski, Henry, Engineers of Dreams: Great Brudge Builders and the Spanning of America (Knopf, 1995)

Rastorfer, Darl, Six Bridges: The Legacy of Othmar H. Ammann (Yale University Press, 2000)

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'The Big Dig' Bibliography

Hughes, Thomas P., Rescuing Prometheus (Pantheon, 1998)

Luberoff, David, MegaProject: A Political History of Boston's Multibillion Dollar Artery/Tunnel Project (revised edition, Harvard University Press, April 1996)

Lupo, Alan, et al., Rites of Way: The Politics of Transportation in Boston and the U.S. City (Little Brown, 1971)

Patton, Phil, Open Road (Simon & Schuster, 1986)

Krieger, Alex, et al., Mapping Boston (Muriel G. and Norman B. Levanthal Family Foundation, 1999)

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Further reading about the 'Great Projects'

MINI BIOS

Othmar Ammann

Born in Switzerland in 1879, Othmar Amman graduated from Zurich's Federal Polytechnic Institute in 1902, and became a U.S. citizen in 1924. Mentored by Gustav Lindenthal, America's dean of bridge engineering, Amman went on to design the George Washington, Whitestone, Throgs Neck and Verrazano-Narrows bridges.

Arthur Morgan

Appointed by Franklin Roosevelt to be the TVA's first director, Arthur Morgan learned engineering from his father, becoming president of the family firm before serving as president of Antioch College. Part hydraulic engineer, part social philosopher, Morgan saw TVA as his opportunity to remake society.