{ Feb 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 302 pages Published 1968 The stunning story of one of Americaβs great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by
The Johnstown Flood
β Scribed by McCullough, David
- Book ID
- 106893210
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 1968
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780671207144
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β¦ Synopsis
Amazon.com Review
The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in David McCullough's hands it is, well, riveting. His award-winning histories of the --Mary Ellen Curtin
Review
The New Yorker A first rate example of the documentary method....Mr. McCullough is a good writer and painstaking reporter and he has re-created that now almost mythic cataclysm...with the thoroughness the subject demands.
The New York Times We have no better social historian.
Book World McCullough has resurrected the flood for a generation that may know it in name only. He proves the subject is still fresh and spectacular.
John Leonard The New York Times We have no better social historian.
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EDITORIAL REVIEW: David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books \*The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas,\* and \*Mornings on Horseback,\* and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?' \*The Johnstown Flood,\* David
EDITORIAL REVIEW: David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books \*The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas,\* and \*Mornings on Horseback,\* and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?' \*The Johnstown Flood,\* David
Ann E. Burg explores the deep class divides and social injustice behind one of America's greatest tragedies. **\* "Stunning, significant and sorrowful, Ann E. Burg's requiem melts history into prose... Highly recommended." β *School Library Journal*, starred review** "Chillingly effective." β *Bul