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The Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century

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We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Michael Hiltzik. His new book “Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century,” is a story of the largest public works project in US history.

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Michael Hiltzik, reporter and columnist for the Lost Angeles Times, and author of "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age," and "A Death in Kenya."

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