Rylie’s Reviews > The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River > Status Update

Read this for history 355. I liked the first two chapters and learned a lot about the Columbia river. The last two chapters lost me. The discussion in class pulled out a lot of the issues this book has and how White completely shifts from a cultural and environmental history to political and law history. He focused too much on the machine and not enough on the organic which sells him short and takes away fromthepoint