Triangle The Fire That Changed America
by Von Drehle, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Atlantic Monthly Press
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Summary
A vibrant and immensely moving account of the harrowing shirtwaist Triangle fire of 1911. This tragedy transformed politics and gave rise to urban liberalism and labour unions.
Table of Contents
| Prologue: MISERY LANE | 1 | (5) | |
| 1 SPIRIT OF THE AGE | 6 | (29) | |
| 2 THE TRIANGLE | 35 | (20) | |
| 3 UPRISING | 55 | (32) | |
| 4 THE GOLDEN LAND | 87 | (29) | |
| 5 INFERNO | 116 | (23) | |
| 6 THREE MINUTES | 139 | (32) | |
| 7 FALLOUT | 171 | (23) | |
| 8 REFORM | 194 | (25) | |
| 9 TRIAL | 219 | (40) | |
| EPILOGUE | 259 | (10) | |
| APPENDIX | 269 | (16) | |
| NOTES | 285 | (32) | |
| NOTES ON SOURCES | 317 | (4) | |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 321 | (6) | |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 327 | (2) | |
| INDEX | 329 |
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