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Author : J. S. Ogilvie
Release : 2010-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa. , May 31, 1889, by Which Over Ten Thousand Lives Were Lost by : J. S. Ogilvie
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Author : John Stuart Ogilvie
Release : 1889
Genre : Floods
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Book Synopsis History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889 by : John Stuart Ogilvie
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Author : David McCullough
Release : 2007-05-31
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Johnstown Flood by : David McCullough
Download or read book Johnstown Flood written by David McCullough. This book was released on 2007-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
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Book Synopsis History of the Great Flood in Johnstown, Pa., May 31, 1889, Etc. - Scholar's Choice Edition by : Anonymous
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