Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century (Free Press) On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Hoover Dam, join Pulitzer Prize–winning Los Angeles Times journalist and author Michael Hiltzik for a discussion and book signing of Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century. "[Colossus is a] detailed and vividly written study – destined to be the standard history for decades to come." --Washington Post "With a runaway oil well fouling the Gulf of Mexico for weeks on end—and both government and industry seemingly helpless to stop it—Michael Hiltzik's Colossus, is a welcome reminder of the engineering genius that built America. Mr. Hiltzik, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, tells the Hoover Dam story in the grand tradition of David McCullough, who more or less invented the idea of popular and historically sophisticated books about stupendous engineering achievements.... Mr. Hiltzik clearly explains the technological and physical difficulties posed by the dam project, but he also fixes the endeavor in its time and captures the personalities of the people involved." --Wall Street Journal Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has written about business, technology, and public policy for the Los Angeles Times for three decades. Currently the Times’s business columnist, he has also served as a financial and political writer, an investigative reporter, and a foreign correspondent in Africa and Russia. His previous books are The Plot Against Social Security (2005), Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (1999), and A Death in Kenya: The Murder of Julia Ward (1991).