03049nam 2200649 450 991078928510332120200520144314.00-292-76105-80-292-76104-X10.7560/759237(CKB)3710000000092458(EBL)3443728(SSID)ssj0001215583(PQKBManifestationID)11722669(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001215583(PQKBWorkID)11178742(PQKB)10158713(Au-PeEL)EBL3443728(CaPaEBR)ebr10846042(OCoLC)874921913(MiAaPQ)EBC3443728(DE-B1597)586698(OCoLC)1280945370(DE-B1597)9780292761049(EXLCZ)99371000000009245820140318h20032003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCity on fire the explosion that devastated a Texas town and ignited a historic legal battle /Bill MinutaglioAustin, Texas :University of Texas Press,2003.©20031 online resource (308 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-292-75923-1 ""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Introduction""; ""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""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.FiresTexasTexas CityHistory20th centuryDisastersTexasTexas CityHistory20th centuryIndustrial accidentsTexasTexas CityHistory20th centuryTexas City (Tex.)History20th centuryTexas City (Tex.)BiographyFiresHistoryDisastersHistoryIndustrial accidentsHistory976.4/139Minutaglio Bill1486744MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789285103321City on fire3795735UNINA