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Sutton, Patricia

Capsized!: The Forgotten Story of the SS Eastland Disaster

155 pp. | Chicago | July, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-61373-943-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-61373-946-4
(3) 4-6 Sutton offers a vivid, detailed account of how and why the SS Eastland capsized on the Chicago River's bank in summer 1915. The cargo-turned-pleasure boat, carrying 2,500 (mainly immigrant) employees of Western Electric, sank before departing for a company picnic. In short, dynamic chapters enhanced with archival photographs, the straightforward text reflects on the disaster's obscurity relative to its contemporary, the Titanic. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Rita Soltan

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