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EDITORIAL REVIEW: David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling books *The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas,* and *Mornings on Horseback,* and as host of the popular PBS television series "Smithsonian World?' *The Johnstown Flood,* David McCullough's first book, was praised by *Time* magazine as a "meticulously researched, vivid account of one of the most stunning disasters in U.S. history." 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 rese

Author

David McCullough

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Language

EN