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What We Learn From "Holding Back The River"

When we talk about infrastructure, we talk mostly about roads and bridges - but very little, if anything, about rivers.

 

  

Tyler J. Kelley is a journalist and author who examines the Ohio, the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers - from the people who live along them to the policies of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - in his book:  “Holding Back the River:  The Struggle Against Nature on America’s Waterways,” published by Simon and Schuster.

 

  

 

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