Colossus: Hoover Dam and the making of the American century

Introduction: September 30, 1935: Roosevelt comes to the river

pt. 1. The sinful river

The journey of death

Born of the desert

Rockwood's gamble

The Lord's dam site

pt. 2. The road to Black Canyon

Hoover steps in

Battlegrounds

Hurry-up Crowe

The silver spike

The big six

Ragtown

Rush job

The Wobblies' last stand

Ely's kingdom

pt. 3. The arch

The jumbos

Turning points

The rising

The pour

Reckonings

The crest

Legacies.