Fire in the Grove The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath

Name: Fire in the Grove The Cocoanut Grove Tragedy and Its Aftermath
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ISBN: 9780306815010

ISBN-10: 030681501X

ISBN-13: 9780306815010

Edition: 2006

Authors: John C. Esposito

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On Saturday night, November 28, 1942, Boston suffered its worst disaster ever. At the city's premier nightspot, the Cocoanut Grove, the largest nightclub fire in U.S. history took the lives of 492 people--nearly one of every two people on the premises. A flash of fire that started in an imitation palm tree rolled through the overcrowded club with breathtaking speed and in a mere eight minutes anyone left in the club was dead or doomed. The Grove was a classic firetrap, the product of greed and indifference on the part of the owners and the politicians who had knowingly allowed such conditions to exist. Against the backdrop of Boston politics, cronyism, and corruption, author John C.…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 10/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Saturday Night, November 28, 1942



The Rehearsal



The Intimate Place



No Exit



The Eight-Minute Fire



Don't Panic



The Unalterable Laws



It's Not My Job



Present at the Creation



The Man Who Wasn't There



The Bright Side?



Indictments-General and Specific



Recklessness



Ex Post Facto



The Verdict



Reckonings



Fact or Fiction?


Postscript: The 90-Second Fire


Index