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Great Projects: The Epic Story of the Building of America, from the Taming of the Mississippi to the Invention of the Internet by James Tobin. New York: The Free Press, 2001; 322 pages; $40.
A photograph of the Hoover Dam graces the cover of James Tobin's Great Projects, a book that celebrates eight milestone engineering proiects in America's history, one of which is the dam. The back cover, however, is far more interesting.
Rather than treat another of the projects...