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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Nat Brandt
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Description for Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
Paperback. On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke. Num Pages: 240 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJC; BT; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. In ""Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903"", Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific event to assess not only the titanic tragedy of the fire itself but also the municipal corruption and greed that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke and ... Read more
On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. In the short span of twenty minutes, more than six hundred people were asphyxiated, burned, or trampled to death in a panicked mob's failed attempt to escape. In ""Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903"", Nat Brandt provides a detailed chronicle of this horrific event to assess not only the titanic tragedy of the fire itself but also the municipal corruption and greed that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
348g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809327218
SKU
V9780809327218
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About Nat Brandt
Veteran journalist Nat Brandt is the author of ten previous books, including The Man Who Tried to Burn New York and The Town That Started the Civil War. The former editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, Brandt was also an editor for The New York Times and managing editor of American Heritage.
Reviews for Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
[Brandt] deftly lays out the story of a tragedy waiting to happen in a city with a corrupt government and greedy businessmen.... In the one hundred years since the fire, the worldwide horror and anger over the Iroquois calamity has faded away. But Brandt's carefully documented, readable account reminds us what all the shouting was about. - Chicago Sun-Times ""This ... Read more