David McCullough Signed 1st Edition The Johnstown Flood Hardcover withDustjacket
Simon & Schuster, New York. Includes section of black & white photographs, maps on endpapers. Signed and inscribed by David McCullough on the colophon page. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is faded along the spine with some chipping present to the edges of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine.
Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. At the end of the last 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 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 townspeople. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. From research in the voluminous records, diaries, letters, interviews with numbers of survivors, and a rare, previously unknown transcript of a private investigation conducted by the Pennsylvania Railroad, David McCullough vividly re-creates the chain of events that led to the catastrophe, and then unfolds the incredible story of the flood itself and its aftermath. 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 19th-century America, of overweening confidence, energy, and 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. David McCullough Signed 1st Edition The Johnstown Flood Hardcover w/Dustjacket. Up For Sale Today is. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon!
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