Souvenir Of York S Worst Flood 1933
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Souvenir Of York S Worst Flood 1933
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language : en
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Release Date : 1933*
Souvenir Of York S Worst Flood 1933 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933* with Floods categories.
York Flood 1933
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language : en
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Release Date : 1933*
York Flood 1933 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933* with Floods categories.
Gift Of The Rivers
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Author : Gus Norwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Gift Of The Rivers written by Gus Norwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Electric power categories.
Johnstown Flood
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Author : David McCullough
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-05-31
Johnstown Flood written by David McCullough and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-31 with History categories.
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth 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. 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. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. 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 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
The Evolution Of The 1936 Flood Control Act
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Author : Joseph L. Arnold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Evolution Of The 1936 Flood Control Act written by Joseph L. Arnold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Flood control categories.
Joseph W Young Jr And The City Beautiful
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Author : Joan Mickelson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-01-21
Joseph W Young Jr And The City Beautiful written by Joan Mickelson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-21 with Social Science categories.
Joseph W. Young, Jr., was acknowledged as one of the five or six major city builders in boomtime Florida. From practically nothing in 1920 he created Hollywood By-the-Sea with an elegant Beaux Arts plan of circles and lakes, calling it a "City Beautiful," an ideal first propounded by Daniel Burnham of Chicago. Young had a rare talent for publicity and a knack for making and spending millions--supported by an immense personal charm that is still remembered decades after his death. This first full biography of Young covers his start as city builder in turn-of-the-century California where new cities blossomed and were ballyhooed, his move to Indianapolis, home of Carl Fisher who developed Miami Beach, his creation of Hollywood and Port Everglades, and his move to his Adirondack resort, ending with his dreams to expand Hollywood, fulfilled after his early death.
Heidegger And Nazism
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Author : Víctor Farías
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1989
Heidegger And Nazism written by Víctor Farías and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
The first book to document Heidegger's close connections to Nazism-now available to a new generation of students
The Flood Year 1927
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Author : Susan Scott Parrish
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-04
The Flood Year 1927 written by Susan Scott Parrish and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with History categories.
A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half a million people across seven states. It was also the first environmental disaster to be experienced virtually on a mass scale. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event provoked an intense and lasting cultural response. Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a "great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose. Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees prompted comparisons to slavery from pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called the flood "the most colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures—from entertainers Will Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright—shaped public awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 allows us to assess how mediated environmental disasters became central to modern consciousness.
Mencken
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Author : Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005-11-01
Mencken written by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-01 with History categories.
A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive biography of Mencken, the finest book ever published about this giant of American letters. Rodgers illuminates both the public and the private man, covering the many love affairs, his happy marriage at the age of 50 to Sara Haardt, and his complicated but stimulating friendship with the famed theater critic George Jean Nathan. Rodgers vividly recreates Mencken's era: the glittering tapestry of turn-of-the-century America, the roaring twenties, depressed thirties, and the home front during World War II. But the heart of the book is Mencken. When few dared to shatter complacencies, Mencken fought for civil liberties and free speech, playing a prominent role in the Scope's Monkey Trial, battling against press censorship, and exposing pious frauds and empty uplift. The champion of our tongue in The American Language, Mencken also played a pivotal role in defining American letters through The Smart Set and The American Mercury, magazines that introduced such writers as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Langston Hughes. Drawing on research in more than sixty archives including private collections in the United States and in Germany, previously unseen, on exclusive interviews with Mencken's friends, and on his love letters and FBI files, here is the full portrait of one of America's most colorful and influential men. "This biography, the best ever on the sage of Baltimore, is exhaustive but never exhausting, and offers readers more than moderate intelligence and an awfully good time." --Martin Nolan, Boston Globe
The Book Of The Dead
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Author : Muriel Rukeyser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Book Of The Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.