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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
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Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath Hardback - 2005

by John L. Esposito

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Saturday night, November 28, 1942, Boston suffered its worst disaster ever. At the city's premier nightspot, the Cocoanut Grove, the largest nightclub fire in United States history took the lives of 492 people-nearly one of every two people on the premises. A flash of fire that started in an imitation palm tree rolled through the overcrowded club with breathtaking speed and in a mere eight minutes anyone left in the club was dead or doomed. The Grove was a classic firetrap, the product of greed and indifference on the part of the owners and the politicians who had knowingly allowed such conditions to exist. Against the backdrop of Boston politics, cronyism, and corruption, author John C. Esposito re-creates the drama of the fire and explores the public outcry that followed. In chronicling the horrific events of one of America's most cataclysmic tragedies, Esposito has fashioned both an incomparably gripping narrative and a vibrant portrait of the era. But it is the intense, detailed narrative of the fire-harrowing yet compulsively readable-and the trials that followed that will stay with readers well after they finish this remarkable book.

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  • Title Fire in the Grove: The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
  • Author John L. Esposito
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 254
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA
  • Publication date 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306814235 / 0306814234
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.4 x 0.93 in (23.57 x 16.26 x 2.36 cm)
  • Category History - U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Boston (Mass.) - Buildings, structures, etc, Boston (Mass.) - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005022694
  • Dewey Decimal Code 974.461

About the author

Attorney John C. Esposito was Chief Counsel to the New York State Consumer Protection Board for five years. He is currently in private practice in New York City.
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