- History, Floods, Johnstown Flood, Pennsylvania
At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and resolved.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- David McCullough
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, Peter Smith Pub Inc, Simon & Schuster, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671207144
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David Gaub McCullough has been widely acclaimed as a “master of the art of narrative history.” He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, twice winner of the National Book Award, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
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