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On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke.

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[Brandt] deftly lays out the story of a tragedy waiting to happen in a city with a corrupt government and greedy businessmen.... In the one hundred years since the fire, the worldwide horror and anger over the Iroquois calamity has faded away. But Brandt's carefully documented, readable account reminds us what all the shouting was about. - Chicago Sun-Times ""This superior piece of historical investigative journalism will keep readers turning the pages until the bitter end."" - Booklist

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    A Paperback / softback by Nat Brandt, Perry Duis, Cathlyn Schallhorn

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      Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780809327218, 978-0809327218
      ISBN10: 080932721X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      On the afternoon of December 30, 1903, during a sold out matinee performance, a fire broke out in Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. This work provides a chronicle of this event to assess the titanic tragedy of the fire itself and also the municipal corruption that kindled the flames beforehand and the political cover-ups hidden in the smoke.

      Trade Review
      [Brandt] deftly lays out the story of a tragedy waiting to happen in a city with a corrupt government and greedy businessmen.... In the one hundred years since the fire, the worldwide horror and anger over the Iroquois calamity has faded away. But Brandt's carefully documented, readable account reminds us what all the shouting was about. - Chicago Sun-Times ""This superior piece of historical investigative journalism will keep readers turning the pages until the bitter end."" - Booklist

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