The Johnstown Floodby David McCullough | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" |
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| Category: |
"Crime and Disaster (non-fiction)" |
| Pages: | 268 |
| Year of Publication: | 1968 |
| Date Read: | 06/28/1992 |
| Notes: | At the end of the 19th century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hard-working 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 the same industrial prosperity. 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 townspeople. COMMENTS — David McCullough has written equally-interesting histories on other subjects: The Great Bridge, on the Brooklyn Bridge; The Path Between the Seas, on the Panama Canal; Mornings on Horseback, on Theodore Roosevelt; Truman, a biography of Harry S Truman; John Adams, a biography of the second president. |
| My Rating: | 9 |