The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough - ca. 1987

New York: A Touchstone Book / Simon & Schuster, Inc. , ca. 1987. Later printing. Wraps. Near Fine. " A solid job, scholarly yet vivid, balanced yet incisive " - The New York Times....." A first-rate example of the documentary method " - The New Yorker.... " We have no better social historian " - John Leonard, The New York Times.....Author McCullough's first book , and awesome as well as controversial, especially about people, rich, and in positions of power and responsibility, building a hastily re-built summer resort for tycoons like themselves with a newly created lake, with a dam... Despite warnings of danger , nothing was done about this hastily-built old earth dam.... Then came the dam burst of May 31, 1889 . the Johnston Flood, killing more than 2, 000 people, a lasting national scandal.... A stinging lesson about assuming people in positions of responsibility are necessarily alway behving responsibly, as well as a lasting portrait of 19 th century of life in America. With intersting maps and illustrations. In Nine Chapters.... List of Victims.... Bibiiography. Index. Cover design and paining on front cover by Wendell Minor Pictorial softcovef book ( 6 X 9 1/8 ) 308 pages. Book weighs 1 pound.

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