false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175798439m/559887.jpg 559887 2 The compelling story of a man-made disaster amid the tensions of the early twentieth century. Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles per hour. When the tide receded, a section of the city's North End had been transformed into a war zone. The Great Boston Molasses Flood claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals, injured 150, and caused widespread destruction. But the molasses flood was more than an isolated event. Its story overlays America's story during a tumultuous decade in our history. Tracing the era from the tank's construction in 1915 through the multiyear lawsuit that followed the tragedy, Dark Tide uses the drama of the flood to examine the sweeping changes brought about by World War I, Prohibition, the Anarchist movement, the Red Scare, immigration, and the role of big business in society. 547048 2003 Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 total:190|5:44|4:88|3:54|2:4|1:0| 190 742 342 59 3 1 false false Sat May 26 05:18:47 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 04:03:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 16:29:58 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 12:45:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 09:27:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 08:47:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 14:05:58 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 16:15:29 -0700 2009
As a Bostonian, I always knew there had once been a "big molasses flood" in the North End, but it's generally talked about as a whimsical piece of Boston trivia. Any reference to it rarely goes beyond the fact that it happened, and usually the reference...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 15:18:45 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:16:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 15 17:33:02 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 09:37:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 08:32:16 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 13:33:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 11 20:26:34 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 04:22:23 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 20:26:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 24 09:06:31 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 09:13:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 18 07:00:09 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 08:13:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 21:07:15 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 05 17:49:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 10:30:49 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 10:32:38 -0700 2009 it is a good read...I sometimes find history books to dry but the author helps make this more readable for me with stories with connections to characters in the book
it helps that it is local as well
I am going on a tour with the author (and others!) this sunday...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Feb 02 16:53:15 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 16:56:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 20 13:32:56 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 09:23:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 08:29:23 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 08:30:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 12:08:59 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 12:11:47 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 17 17:26:05 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 18:24:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 11:56:36 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 12:00:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 26 08:24:50 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 09:52:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Apr 02 15:38:50 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 15:45:07 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 15:38:51 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=559887