Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780802195258 (0802195253)
Publish date: August 16th 2004
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages no: 333
Edition language: English
This was a dud. I guess I had higher expectations for this book than I was aware of because all I am feeling is disappointment. Yeah, the book does explain (not that well enough in my opinion) what happened and how it happened, but I felt that the author was much more interested in writing about the...
OK, do you really want the truth....... I feel I ought to like this book. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. BUT, but, but I was not all that engaged! Why?There were too many people to get engaged with any one of them.It read like a textbook, at least in parts. This is a book about politics ...
On March 25, 1911, 146 people died at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. 6 of them were never identified. Many of those dead died from jumping out of the windows fleeing the fire; jumping seemed better than being burned alive.A woeful lack of fire inspections, fire safety equipme...