“Mann’s book is timely, and its central theme, the role of legal, political, and scientific institutions in the utilization of water in Arizona, is appropriate. It is appropriate, moreover, for the greater region of California and the Southwest, where exist similar problems. . . . The Politics of Water in Arizona ranks along with Richard Cooley’s prize winning Politics and Conservation: The Decline of the Alaska Salmon as an outstanding contribution of a political science to the field of conservation and resource utilization.”—California Historical Society Quarterly

Dean E. Mann, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley), specialized in American Politics and was an early pioneer in the field of Environmental Politics. While teaching and conducting post-doctoral research at the University of Arizona, Mann established himself as an authority on the politics of water in the western United States. He served as a congressional fellow on the legislative staff of U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and as a fellow with the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C.