{"product_id":"9781620409169","title":"Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles","description":"Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives. A key figure is William Mulholland, the self-taught engineer who created an unprecedented water system, allowing Los Angeles to become America's second-largest city, and who was also responsible for the design and construction of the St. Francis Dam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, \u003ci\u003eFloodpath \u003c\/i\u003egrippingly reanimates the reality behind L.A. noir fictions such as the classic film \u003ci\u003eChinatown\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135763300592,"sku":"9781620409169","price":19.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620409169_p0.jpg?v=1763856223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620409169","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}