The Johnstown Flood (Record no. 4059)
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| fixed length control field | 01556nam a2200181 4500 |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 86026056 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780671207144 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 14378532 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F159.J7 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 974.877 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | David McCullough |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Johnstown Flood |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Simon & Schuster |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 304 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. 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 nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History - U.S. |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 10/21/2014 | 974.8 McCULL | 60998 | 09/24/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |