Reisner was active in conservation and habitat protection activities with several organizations and served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis. He worked for several environmental policy organizations before receiving an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to support the work that would eventually become Cadillac Desert. Reisner was born in Minneapolis and earned a degree in political science from Earlham College. The most widely known is Cadillac Desert, a critical account of the policy, politics, financing, and engineering behind large-scale government water supply projects in the American West. New York: Viking Penguin, 1986.Ībout the Author: American author Marc Reisner (1948–2000) wrote three notable books about water and natural resources. "A Semidesert with a Desert Heart." Cadillac Desert.
This edition includes a new postscript by Lawrie Mott, a former staff scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, that updates Western water issues over the last two decades, including the long-term impact of climate change and how the region can prepare for the future.Source: Reisner, Marc. Based on more than a decade of research, Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden-an Eden that may only be a mirage. Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." -Newsweek He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage - that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought.
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