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Author | : Brinkley Howard |
Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2016-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1621073149 |
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Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this fascinating book.
Author | : Howard Brinkley |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2012-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781478282969 |
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Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known. In the aftermath of the Earthquake, authorities learned the hard way that the city was vastly unprepared for any disaster. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this fascinating book. HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides; with dozens of books published every month, there's sure to be something just for you! Visit our website to find out more.
Author | : Harry Paul Jeffers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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A colorful city -- eighth largest in the country -- reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake and then consumed by flames... In this vivid, fast-paced chronicle of what has been called the worst peacetime disaster to ever befall America, veteran journalist and author H. Paul Jeffers provides a gripping account of the nightmarish days in April 1906 when earthquake and fire devastated San Francisco. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness material, Jeffers follows a variety of individuals as they come to terms with an unthinkable event. Celebrities like Enrico Caruso and John Barrymore; the civil and military authorities who tried to bring order out of the chaos; merchants who struggled heroically to save their shops and goods from the ruins and the flames; the suddenly homeless ordinary men and women who composed messages on scraps of paper and sticks of wood (all of which, incredibly, the postal service actually delivered) to tell of their survival: from all these and many other perspectives Jeffers creates a riveting mosaic of catastrophe and its aftermath. With the one-hundredth anniversary of the quake approaching, this skillful and engrossing narrative will be of keen interest to readers from west coast to east. Book jacket.
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Release | : 2006 |
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Author | : Grayston L. Lynch |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1597974439 |
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Grayston Lynch presents an exceptional portrayal of actual events that led to the betrayal of extraordinary, patriotic, and courageous men. Lynch's unmasking of "Kennedy's Camelot" reveals heart-wrenching facts that continue to stir emotions among Brigade 2506 veterans.
Author | : Dan Kurzman |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2002-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780060084325 |
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The George Polk Memorial Award-winning historian investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, bringing to life this horrible natural disaster--registering 8.3 on the Richter scale--and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble killing ten thousand people. Reprint.
Author | : Richard Hansen |
Publisher | : Untreed Reads |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2013-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611875420 |
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Almost five decades of exhaustive research by Gladys Hansen, Official Archivist Emeritus of San Francisco, makes Earthquake, Fire & Epidemic the definitive discourse on one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history. With coauthors Richard Hansen and Dr. William Blaisdell, M.D., Gladys Hansen offers a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, during, and following the April 1906 Earthquake and Fire that devastated San Francisco. The book includes narratives depicting the firefighters, military personnel, and first responders whose extraordinary efforts helped establish order out of chaos. Of particular significance, the authors discredit the deceitful efforts by San Francisco's political and business establishment who, to protect the commercial viability of the city, minimized the death toll and diminished the true magnitude of destruction. Earthquake, Fire & Epidemic offers new documentation and provides insight into the incomprehensible scale of disaster that killed thousands of people, utterly destroyed a quarter of San Francisco's buildings, and rendered tens of thousands of survivors homeless in the Golden City by the Bay.
Author | : Sydney Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
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Author | : Rutherford H. Platt |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2012-07-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1610912632 |
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In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? Are people more likely to invest in property in hazardous locations in the belief that, if worse comes to worst, the federal government will bail them out? Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs.
Author | : Philip L. Fradkin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520230606 |
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"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."