Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
City on Fire
The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
-
Bill Minutaglio
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.
Author / Editor information
Bill Minutaglio is author or coauthor of eight books, including Dallas 1963, In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas, First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, and Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Outside: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. He has been interviewed on the Today Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and the BBC. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Frontmatter
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Introduction
ix -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
TEXAS CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
3 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Voyage
8 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
10 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Ship
20 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Company
22 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Ship
32 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
35 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Ship
42 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Mayor
47 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Ship
56 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Mayor
57 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Warning
68 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Ship
70 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
73 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The People
82 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The First Words from Texas City
109 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Scientist
110 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Mayor
112 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The City
118 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Mayor
126 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The People
134 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
147 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Second Explosion
157 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The President
173 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The City
174 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The City
190 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Gangster
199 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Priest
205 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Unknown Dead
209 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Mayor
218 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
"United States of America, Defendant"
224 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Trial
230 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
"By Direction of the President of the United States"
247 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The King Can Do No Wrong
252 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
"Speak Freely"
258 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
"Pleased to Advise"
261 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Good People
265 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acknowledgments
281
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 25, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780292761049
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780292761049
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
