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Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
by Michael McCarthy
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 1493009400
- ISBN 13
- 9781493009404
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About This Item
Lyons Press, 2018. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Lyons Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 374
- Title
- Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
- Author
- Michael McCarthy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1493009400
- ISBN 13
- 9781493009404
- Publisher
- Lyons Press
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Ship History, U.S. State & Local History, American History, Shipwrecks, Maritime,
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