Water and American Government - The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902 - 1935Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the countryshows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself. What began as the underwriting of a variety of projects to create family farms and farming communities had