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To Sleep with the Angels - The Story of a Fire (Paperback, 1st Elephant Paperbacks ed)
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To Sleep with the Angels - The Story of a Fire (Paperback, 1st Elephant Paperbacks ed)
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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a
Catholic elementary school in Chicago almost forty years ago was an
extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in
American history, it took the lives of ninety-two children and
three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families
physically and psychologically scarred for life, and destroyed a
close-knit working-class neighborhood. This is the moving story of
that fire and its consequences written by two journalists who have
been obsessed with the events of that terrible day in December
1958. It is a story of ordinary people caught up in a disaster that
shocked the nation. In gripping detail, those who were
there-children, teachers, firefighters-describe the fear,
desperation, and panic that prevailed in and around the stricken
school building on that cold Monday afternoon. But beyond the
flames, the story of the fire at Our Lady of the Angels became an
enigma whose mystery has deepened with time: its cause was never
officially explained despite evidence that it had been
intentionally set by a troubled student at the school. The fire led
to a complete overhaul of fire safety standards for American
schools, but it left a community torn apart by grief and anger, and
accusations that the Catholic church and city fathers had shielded
the truth. Messrs. Cowan and Kuenster have recreated this tragedy
in a powerful narrative with all the elements of a first-rate
detective story.
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