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The Untold Story Of The Lower Colorado R
John Williams
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Hardback. readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into the largest public power organization in Texas. Num Pages: 320 pages, 83 colour , 155 black & white illustrations, 2 line art. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK; RBKF; RNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 825.
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas.
With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger ... Read more
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas.
With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623493417
SKU
V9781623493417
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About John Williams
John Williams, of Austin, is a writer, editor, and historian whose career with LCRA spanned nearly four decades.
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