FROM THE #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF JOHN ADAMS
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 portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of
overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. This is a
powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the
danger of assuming that because people are in positions of
responsibility they are behaving responsibly.
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