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| | Amazon.com: Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Vintage): Books: Erik Larson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Overall, Isaac's Storm recaptures at a time when, standing in the first year of the century, Americans felt like they ruled the world--and that even the weather was no real threat to their supremacy. |
 | | The book meanders through occasional dry stretches of Isaac's pre-storm biography, and through the history of the U.S. Weather Bureau (they were interesting, but not nearly as interesting as the storm), but once it focuses on the events of September 8, 1900 and beyond, I wasn't able to set "Isaac's Storm" down. |
 | | The Isaac in the title is Isaac Cline, head of the National Weather Bureau at the time who ignored the signs of the city's impending doom and suffered for it personally in many ways. |
| www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375708278?v=glance (2269 words) |
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