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by Tyler J. Kelley
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A revelatory work of reporting on the men and women wrestling to harness and preserve America?s most vital natural resource: our rivers.The Mississippi. The Missouri. The Ohio. America?s rivers are the very lifeblood of our country. We need them for nourishing crops, for cheap bulk transportation, for hydroelectric power, for fresh drinking water. Rivers are also part of our mythology, our collective soul; they are Mark Twain, Led Zeppelin, and the Delta Blues. But as infrastructure across the nation fails and climate change pushes rivers and seas to new heights, we?ve arrived at a critical moment in our battle to tame these often-destructive forces of nature. Tyler J. Kelley spent two years traveling the heartland, getting to know the men and women whose lives and livelihoods rely on these tenuously tamed streams. On the Illinois-Kentucky border, we encounter Luther Helland, master of the most important?and most decrepit?lock and dam in America. This old dam at the end of the Ohio