William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles

Sorry I bought it, hoping for a great book, and I read almost everything of this genre. This was a bad buy I just gambled on. It's like reading a dissertation for a college class BUT by a Mulholland family member. Tangled up in footnotes, theories, imagined situations should something have gone either way -- I gave it to our local library after 3 sit-downs. Just terribly dull, boring, like reading a bad encyclopedia. Sorry Mulholland family, you had an opportunity. You blew it. You buried the most important part of Mulhollands legacy and tucked it away with deflection, that maybe it really wasn't his fault (it was) -- 400+ people died because of his lack of engineering knowledge. Instead its a family love letter. Don't buy this book.