How effectively did Chernow use chronologic order ad the comparison-and-contrast structure to portray the idea that Hamilton and Jefferson were "destined to become moral foes"

The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris-choked side canyons, and the original glen canyon, is the difference between death and life. glen canyon was alive. lake powell is a graveyard. which word best contributes to the author’s sad tone?