Reviews

Life and Death at Hoover Dam by Jerry Borrowman

fester1969's review

3.0

The engineering information was good; the historical fiction less so. A quick and easy read and mildly interesting.

mazza57's review

5.0

This is a fascinating book, incredibly well written and much more than just a history of the building of one of the most incredible engineering projects in living history. It tells the story of it engineers and its huge workforce, of racial disharmony on a huge scale. In order to fit in at the hoover dam site you needed to be white American anything else and your chances were non existent. Yet, Tony Capaldi an Italian American gets work at the project, a hard and conscientious worker, a good man but the treatment of him takes none of these things into account.

There are big issues in this book that should make everyone think about their stance on immigration and racial integration.

dragonflylee's review

1.0

The descriptions of Hoover Dam were interesting. This book started off really good but went downhill for me with the events supposedly happening to the characters. They were drawn out and unbelievable.