| Title |
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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| Names |
Puleo, Stephen.
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| Book Number |
DB059335
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| Annotation |
Chronicle of the Boston waterfront's molasses tank collapse that flooded the city's North End with a sticky twenty-five-foot-high tidal wave, killing twenty-one people. Explores the tragedy from the tank's 1915 construction to a civil lawsuit decided in 1925 and touches larger issues of immigration, WWI, Prohibition, and labor. 2003.
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| Narrator |
Hoover, Butch.
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| Title Status |
Active
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| Local Subject |
Short Book - SH
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Adult Book - AD
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Adult Non-Fiction - AN
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Adventure NonFiction - Disaster - ADND
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History United States - 973
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Law - Statutes, regulations, cases - 348
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General NonFiction - GNF
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Social problems, services & associations - 360
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Current Events - NEWS
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Law - Labor, social, education, cultural - 344
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Social Commentary - SCOM
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Social problems - Other - 363
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Male narrator - MN
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| LC Subject |
Alcohol industry - Accidents - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century
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Floods - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century
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Industrial accidents - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century
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Molasses industry - Accidents - Massachusetts - Boston - History - 20th century
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Boston (Mass.) - History - 1865
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| Medium |
Digital Books
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| Language |
English
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| Download Link |
Downloadable talking book.
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| Length |
9 hours, 59 minutes
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| Publication Info |
(APH, recording studio). 2005 (APH, recording studio).
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| Original Publication |
Recorded from: Boston, Mass : Beacon Press, c2003. 0807050202
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