![]() From research in the voluminous records, diaries, letters, interviews with numbers of survivors, and a rare, previously unknown transcript of a private investigation conducted by the Pennsylvania Railroad, David McCullough vividly re creates the chain of events that led to the catastrophe, and then unfolds the incredible story of the flood itself and its aftermath. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 townspeople. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity: among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Pennsylvania, was a booming coal and steel town filled with hard working families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. history.’ At the end of the last century, Johnstown. ![]() David McCullough is known to millions as the author of the critically acclaimed, best selling books The Great Bridge, The Path Between the Seas, and Mornings on Horseback, and as host of the popular PBS television series ‘Smithsonian World?’ The Johnstown Flood, David McCullough’s first book, was praised by Time magazine as a ‘meticulously researched, vivid account of one of the most stunning disasters in U.S. ![]()
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