Dark Tide, Old Edition/Out of Print The Great Boston Molasses Flood Of 1919

Name: Dark Tide, Old Edition/Out of Print The Great Boston Molasses Flood Of 1919
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ISBN: 9780807050217

ISBN-10: 0807050210

ISBN-13: 9780807050217

Edition: 2004

Authors: Stephen Puleo

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Dark Tide is the definitive account of Americas most fascinating and surreal disaster." -John Marr, San Francisco Bay Guardian Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Bostons waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles an hour. Dark Tide tells the compelling story of this man-made disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals and caused widespread destruction. "Narrated with gusto . . . [Puleos] enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious." -The New Yorker "Compelling . . . Puleo has done…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 9/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Stephen Puleo is a former award-winning journalist, with a master’s degree in history. He is a frequent contributor to American History magazine. His critically acclaimed first book, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, is a Boston-area best-seller. He lives outside of Boston.