Review: Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California’s Central Valley Project by Tim Stroshane

Donald C. Jackson is Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History at Lafayette College, Easton, PA. His books on California and western water history include Building the Ultimate Dam: John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West (1995), Big Dams of the New Deal Era: a Confluence of Engineering and Politics (with coauthor David Billington, 2005), and most recently Heavy Ground, William Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster (with coauthor Norris Hundley, 2015).