Reviews

"Historian Keith Petersen has done a superb job of chronicling the achievement of the building of the lower Snake River dams and the natural resource devastation they wrought."

"Petersen writes history the way it should be written--free of academic cant and jargon… Evocative, eminently readable, River of Life is an important book about one of the West's most timely topics."

"A carefully researched history of the lower Snake River and the four government dams that are slaughtering our salmon… Having read the book I understand why some folks want to keep us in the dark until the fish are dead. Petersen powerfully exposes the myths sown by the salmon slayers."