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- The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v the Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v California, argues author Jack August in Dividing Western Waters, August's look at Arizona's Herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River.
- About the Author: Jack L. August Jr. is executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest and Visiting Scholar in Legal History at Snell & Wilmer.
- 192 Pages
- History, United States
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The Scopes Monkey Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Brown v the Board of Education, and even subsequent televised high profile murder trials pale in comparison to Arizona v California, argues author Jack August in Dividing Western Waters, August's look at Arizona's Herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River. To this day Arizona v California is still influential. By the time Mark Wilmer settled in the Salt River Valley in the early 1930s, he realized that four basic commodities made possible civilization in the arid West: land, air, sunshine, and water. For Arizona, the seminal water case, Arizona v California, the longest Supreme Court case in American history (1952-1963), constituted an important step in the construction of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a plan crucial for the development of Arizona's economic livelihood. The unique qualities of water framed Wilmer's role in the history of the arid Southwest and defined his towering professional career. Wilmer's analysis of the Supreme Court case caused him to change legal tactics and, in so doing, he changed the course of the history of the American West.About the Author
Jack L. August Jr. is executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest and Visiting Scholar in Legal History at Snell & Wilmer. He is the former executive director at the Arizona Historical Foundation at Arizona State University, where he teaches graduate courses in water policy and management. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Dr. August has written books and articles on twentieth-century western political and environmental history, including Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (TCU Press, 1999) and Senator Dennis Deconcini: From the Center of the Aisle (University of Arizona Press, 2006).Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.33 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: .95 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Theme: State & Local, Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Format: Hardcover
Author: Jack L August
Language: English
Street Date: September 13, 2007
TCIN: 91354292
UPC: 9780875653549
Item Number (DPCI): 247-04-3019
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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