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Condition	Like New
ISBN	9780807078006
Book Title	Dark Tide : the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Publisher	Beacon Press
Item Length	9 in
Edition	100
Publication Year	2019
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Illustrator	Yes
Item Height	0.7 in
Author	Stephen Puleo
Genre	Social Science, History
Topic	United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Disasters & Disaster Relief
Item Weight	14.3 Oz
Item Width	6 in
Number of Pages	288 Pages

Dark Tide : The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, Paperback by Puleo, Stephen, ISBN 080707800X, ISBN-13 9780807078006, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US<b>A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history—and the greed, disregard for poor immigrants, and lack of safety standards that led to it.</b><br><br>Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston’s North End when they heard a tremendous crash. It was like roaring surf, one of them said later. Like a runaway two-horse team smashing through a fence, said another. A third firefighter jumped up from his chair to look out a window—“Oh my God!” he shouted to the other men, “Run!” A 50-foot-tall steel tank filled with million gallons of molasses had just collapsed on Boston’s waterfront, disgorging its contents as a 15-foot-high wave of molasses that at its outset traveled at 35 miles an hour. It demolished wooden homes, even the brick fire station. The number of dead wasn’t known for days. It would be years before a landmark court battle determined who was responsible for the disaster.