Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Puleo, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0807050202 / ISBN 13: 9780807050200

Verlag: Beacon Press, 2003

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000685622

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Describes the 1919 collapse of a steel tank containing more than two million gallons of molasses in Boston--a disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one people, injured 150, and caused widespread destruction--the causes of the tragedy, its aftermath, and the sweeping social changes that transformed the era.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Stephen Puleo is author of the critically acclaimed Boston-area bestseller Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919. A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor to American History magazine, he holds a master's degree in history and wrote his thesis on Italian immigration and the settlement of Boston's North End. He donates a portion of his book proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the leading charitable funder and advocate of juvenile (Type 1) diabetes research. Stephen and his wife, Kate, live in the Boston area.

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Titel: Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood ...
Verlag: Beacon Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good