Day: April 18, 2004
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Book: Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the American West
Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the American West by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Booth Wiley is a clunker. I borrowed the book two months ago from my father-in-law, who warned me it wasn’t perfect. It was worse than that limited recommendation. The idea of looking at Western history through the politics of water…