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Ashes Under Water

Ashes Under Water

Ashes Under Water

Michael McCarthy

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Año de edición:
2018
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Historia de América
ISBN:
9781493009404
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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. As dramatic as the disaster was, the subsequent trial was even more so.

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