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Informationen zum Autor This is the third book in Philip Fradkin's trilogy on earthquakes. The first two are Magnitude 8: Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault (California, 1999) and Wildest Alaska: Journeys of Great Peril in Lituya Bay (California, 2001). Fradkin, who has lived adjacent to the San Andreas Fault for thirty years, is also the author of the acclaimed A River No More (California, 1996) and The Seven States of California (California, 1995), as well as many other books. He shared a Pulitzer Prize while at the Los Angeles Times. Klappentext "Before he wrote books, Philip Fradkin was a newspaperman, and this vivid book has the directness, the reliability, and the reliance on original sources of good journalism. It dismisses some of the legends of the earthquake and gives us new information just as gripping. I am already using it as a reference book, and it is sure to become a standard source for everyone writing about 1906, a great historic event that has previously generated little but untrustworthy and dilatory histories."—Rebecca Solnit, author of River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West "The masterful Philip Fradkin once again plays Sherlock Holmes to Western environmental history. None of the standard histories of the 1906 disaster are likely to survive the exemplary jolt of his remarkable new research."—Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster Zusammenfassung The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate 'seemed to jump clear out of the water'. This book presents an account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface Untitled Prologue Map I BEFORE Beginnings The Tale of Two Cities Science! Politics! and San Francisco The Hotel and the Opera House II DURING Wednesday! April 18! 1906 Thursday! April 19! 1906 Friday! April 20! 1906 III AFTER The Relief Effort The Upbuilding of San Francisco The Search for Understanding The Culture of Disaster Disaster and Race The Politics of Disaster The Fat Lady Sings Author’s Note Acknowledgments Notes Selected Readings Index Illustrations ...
