Cadillac Desert
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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Marc Dunkelman👍 Recommends
…recommending books tracing parallel histories of centralized power and development projects
“And then the third, you know, to degree my book is in conversation with Robert Caro's The Power Broker. I think that that book was indicative of a way that progressivism used to work, and people too often ascribe it to Moses the man, who was enormously powerful and influential in New York. But there's a book by Mark Reisman called Cadillac Desert, which essentially traces the same arc, with a guy named Floyd Dominey running the Bureau of Reclamation and building dams all across the West.”
The Ezra Klein Show — What We Got Right — and Wrong — in ‘Abundance’at 35:01
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