by David McCullough
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coalandsteel 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 th...
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“David McCullough's book on the Johnstown flood is epic. Such an amazing story.”
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