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 nineteenthcentury america, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. The incredible story behind one of the most devastating disasters america has ever known is a 1968 book written by popular historian david mccullough about the great flood of. Notes on the johnstown flood national memorial and on. His other acclaimed books include the greater journey, 1776, brave companions, the johnstown flood, the great bridge, and the wright brothers. The johnstown flood describes how on may 31, 1889, the earthen dam holding back lake conemaugh 15 miles upriver from johnstown, pa, gives way in abnormally heavy spring rains, and a wall of water races down the valley, scraping away all trace of several small communities before destroying and drowning the populace of johnstown in ten minutes. This then is a routine rundown of the catastrophe of may 31st, 1889, the biggest news story since lincolns murder in which thousands died. I love the gilded age or as i like to call it, the age of the robber barons. The history of civil engineering may sound boring, but in david mccullough s hands it is, well, riveting.
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