Tejani brothers biography books
Tejani brothers biography books list.
Tejani brothers biography books
A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles — and America
In A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth, James Tejani doesn’t tell the story we might really be interested in: the central role of the Port of Los Angeles in commerce and American life today.
Instead, he tells the same tale as in his doctoral dissertation about the “making” of that port and the various shenanigans involved in turning an unpromising estuary into a world-class commercial harbor.
It is nonetheless an interesting saga, involving a cast of characters that includes a pre-Civil War Jefferson Davis and George Davidson, the pathbreaking surveyor from the U.S.
Coast Survey. It was a time of heroic deeds, similar to that told in David McCullough’s The Path Between the Seas about building the Panama Canal.
“This is the story of the United States’ formative yet troubled expansion to the Pacific, of its relationship to an envisioned ocean world, and of Am