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The Johnstown Flood Compact disc - 2005
by David McCullough; Read by Edward Herrmann
Summary
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking 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 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal.
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 nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of 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.
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 nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of 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.
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- Title The Johnstown Flood
- Author David McCullough; Read by Edward Herrmann
- Binding Compact Disc
- Edition Unabridged
- Pages 8
- Volumes 8
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-05-01
- ISBN 9780743540865 / 0743540867
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 5.88 x 5 x 1.2 in (14.94 x 12.70 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Audiobooks, Johnstown (Pa.) - History - 19th century
- Dewey Decimal Code 974.877
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