Bob Hazard, dam builder

In the early twentieth century, when America was building itself bigger and bolder than any nation before, a young man named Bob Hazard looks at the rivers that have run wild for millennia and sees something humanity has never attempted: a wall to hold them back. His father, a respected attorney, has mapped out a different future entirely, one of courtrooms and legal briefs, but Bob's heart belongs to bridges and blueprints, to the mathematics of water and stone. This is a story about the courage it takes to become one's own person when your father's shadow is long. As Bob fights to earn his place in the world of civil engineering, he must prove that dreamers who calculate can move mountains. The novel captures an era when humanity believed it could reshape nature itself, when dams were monuments to human ambition, and when a young man with a vision could stand before nature and say: not today.