Description:
Portraying Freeman for the first time in all his provocative complexity, The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy is at once a deeply researched, richly detailed biography and social history and a compelling reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in US environmental culture.
Brief description: Donald C. Jackson, Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, is the author of Building the Ultimate Dam.
Review Quotes: "Jackson's biography of John R. Freeman, famed engineer and lobbyist, explodes the previously simplistic characterization of this controversy over the most famous, foundational dam proposal in US environmental history. The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy marshals astounding research into a narrative that captures the rising tension of a known outcome, an impressive accomplishment."--Jen Huntley, author of The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular Park