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Title: Tinder Box: The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903 (Iroquois Theater) by Anthony P. Hatch ISBN: 0-89733-514-7 Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Human Drama
Comment: With extraordinary thoroughness and an obvious love of his subject, Anthony Hatch makes vivid the story of Chicago's Iroquois Theatre fire of 1903.
With eerie parallels to the Titanic disaster, the Iroquois' programs boasted that the theater was "Absolutely Fireproof"-- but everyone involved seemed to think somebody else had done whatever was necessary to make that claim a reality.
The most deadly theater fire in U.S. history, the event is heartbreaking to read about, but Hatch has ferreted out the many human stories of the victims, survivors, reporters, firefighters, theater managers, and politicians who were involved, and found heroes as well as villains in this tragedy.
In spite of the lessons learned and laws changed as a result of this terrible loss, Hatch's research shows that many modern theaters repeat some of the careless mistakes of the Iroquois. Everyone who frequents public buildings would be well-advised to read this fascinating story and take its lessons to heart.
Rating: 5
Summary: How and Why A Disaster Happened
Comment: In an age when government wants to regulate nearly every aspect of our lives, it seems incredible that the Iroquois Theater disaster could have even happend. So that the reader may understand the how and why of it, author Hatch has provided us with fine introductory chapters concerning the theater business of the day and how it operated, the political realities of Chicago (and elsewhere)at the time, the physical aspects of how fires were fought, and how the combination brought about this disaster. Without this information, the book would be far less informing than it is. With it, it becomes a fascinating, horrific look at a disaster that didn't need to happen.
This book is excellent reading and reminds us all that we forget the lessons of the Iroquois Theater at our peril.
Rating: 3
Summary: Slow moving
Comment: This book takes eight chapters to get into the fire
itself. It has a large amount of information about the
Theater Trust organization that is not necessary to the
story.
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Title: Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903 by Nat Brandt, R. Perry Duis, Cathlyn Schallhorn ISBN: 0809324903 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle ISBN: 0871138743 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Ship Ablaze : The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum by Edward T. O'Donnell ISBN: 0767909054 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 10 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: To Sleep With the Angels: The Story of a Fire (Illinois) by David Cowan, John Kuenster ISBN: 156663217X Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History by Denise Gess, William Lutz ISBN: 0805067809 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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