By famous historian David McCullough, author of "John Adams" and the current bestseller "1776." This is the best popular history of the Johnstown flood of 1889. A terrific read! The New Yorker wrote, "A first-rate example of the documentary method...Mr. McCullough is a good writer and painstaking reporter and he has re-created that almost mythic cataclysm...with the thoroughness the subject demands." According to the New York Times, the book is "...a superb job, scholarly yet vivid, balanced yet incisive." In paperback, 302 pages.
