City on Fire : : The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle /

City on Fire : : The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle / / Bill Minutaglio.

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First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Minutaglio, Bill,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2014
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (307 p.) :; 12 b&w photos
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • TEXAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
  • The Priest
  • The Voyage
  • The Priest
  • The Ship
  • The Company
  • The Ship
  • The Priest
  • The Ship
  • The Mayor
  • The Ship
  • The Mayor
  • The Warning
  • The Ship
  • The Priest
  • The People
  • The First Words from Texas City
  • The Scientist
  • The Mayor
  • The City
  • The Mayor
  • The People
  • The Priest
  • The Second Explosion
  • The President
  • The City
  • The City
  • The Gangster
  • The Priest
  • The Unknown Dead
  • The Mayor
  • "United States of America, Defendant"
  • The Trial
  • "By Direction of the President of the United States"
  • The King Can Do No Wrong
  • "Speak Freely"
  • "Pleased to Advise"
  • Good People
  • Acknowledgments

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