Water to the Angels

A good yarn about a time that seems very distant: when Southern California was a desert, and a purely self-taught man could mobilize millions of dollars and thousands of people to build massive public works. It was a good read, but it also left me wanting more: could have benefited from less focus on people and more on the legal, sociological, environmental, and economic factors that made this possible. Still, definitely something I'd recommend to my friends in LA and suggest to all Californians.