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  • Title Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck That Shook America
  • Author Michael McCarthy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Lyons Press
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781493009404 / 1493009400
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Great Lakes
    • Cultural Region: Midwest
    • Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
    • Geographic Orientation: Illinois
    • Locality: Chicago, Illinois
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.731

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Michael McCarthy worked for the Wall Street Journal for twenty-two years, first as a reporter and then as an editor on feature stories. He has been published in The Southern Review, among other publications. He has spent twelve years researching the Eastland case. Off and on for more than two decades, Mr. McCarthy has lived in Chicago and now lives in South Haven, Michigan - two places integral to the Eastland story..
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