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Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
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Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America Hardcover - 2018

by Michael McCarthy

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Lyons Press, 2018. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2018 Lyons Press hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger, longer, faster. The pressure-filled and greedy climate that resulted would be directly responsible for the Eastland disaster and others. As dramatic as the disaster was, the subsequent trial was even more so. The public demanded justice. When the immigrant engineer who was being scapegoated for the accident was left out to dry by the ship's owners, penniless and down-on-his-luck Clarence Darrow decided to take his case. The defense he mounted, which he was too ashamed to even mention in his memoirs, would be even more shocking.
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  • Title Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
  • Author Michael McCarthy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press
  • Date 2018
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 374
  • ISBN 9781493009404 / 1493009400
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.731

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About the author

Michael McCarthy worked for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years, first as a reporter and then as an editor on feature stories. He has been published in The Southern Review, among other publications. He has spent twelve years researching the Eastland case. Off and on for more than two decades, Mr. McCarthy has lived in Chicago and now lives in South Haven, Michigan - two places integral to the Eastland story..

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