Professor Green’s narration masterfully contextualizes the Hoover Dam as a testament to both industrial ambition and the profound human cost of the New Deal era. It offers a sophisticated reflection on how monumental engineering reshaped the American West's socio-economic landscape.
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Hoover Dam, Narrated by Michael Green
Added:The plans for Hoover Dam predated the Great Depression, but it became a major public works jobs project.
About 21,000 helped dam the Colorado on the Nevada-Arizona border between 1931 and 1936.
The result was water and electricity for the rapidly growing Southwest, a 727-ft high dam with 3.2 million cubic yards of concrete.
The danger and speed of construction cost at least 96 lives.
At the dedication, President Franklin Roosevelt said, "I came, I saw, and I was conquered as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind." Today, about 1.3 million people get electricity from it, and 7 million tourists visit it annually.
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