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The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger, longer, faster. The pressure-filled and greedy climate that resulted would be directly responsible for the Eastland disaster and others. As dramatic as the disaster was, the subsequent trial was even more so. The public demanded justice. When the immigrant engineer who was being scapegoated for the accident was left out to dry by the ship's owners, penniless and down-on-his-luck Clarence Darrow decided to take his case. The defense he mounted, which he was too ashamed to even mention in his memoirs, would be even more shocking.

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  • Title Ashes Under Water
  • Author Michael McCarthy
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press, Helena, Montana
  • Publication date 2014-10-01
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780762793280 / 0762793287
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Category Transportation
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014027543
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.731

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  • Foreword, 11/26/2014, Page 0

About the author

Michael McCarthy worked for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years, first as a reporter and then as an editor on feature stories. He is the author of The Sun Farmer and has been published in The Southern Review, among other publications. He has spent twelve years researching the Eastland case. He has lived in Chicago and now resides in South Haven, Michigan--two ports of call in the Eastland story.

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