- Dam failures, Floods, Capitalists and financiers, Disasters
A love story set in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, before and after the 1889 dam disaster that took more than two thousand lives chronicles the greed and abuse of power in post-Civil War America.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Kathleen Cambor
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 258
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Brilliance Audio, Brand: Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781587882081
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