The Secrets of North Brother Island: An Illustrated Novel of the Greatest American Disaster Before September 11, 2001
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disaster in 1904 of the burning and sinking of the pleasure boat
General Slocum, the worst nonmilitary disaster in American
history before September 11, 2001. It is often called the forgotten
disaster because of the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and the
outbreak of World War I in 1914. However, nearly 1100 perished
on the Slocum, half of them children, in what was to have been
a church picnic. The captain ran it aground on North Brother
Island despite the fact that the fi re broke out beside Rikers Island,
equipped with a full fi re-fi ghting brigade. Crane relates it to the
Civil War forty years earlier and revenge against General Slocum
by one man he caused to be imprisoned in Andersonville. These
pyromaniacs are also related to the record-setting fi res between
1900 and 1911, such as The Triangle Shirtwaist fi re.
John Kenny Crane
John Kenny Crane is Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts at San Jose State University, “The Engine that Drives Silicon Valley.” This is his eighth book. One, The Legacy of Ladysmith, was a Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Selection. Another, The Root of All Evil, was named to the American Library Association’s List of “Best Academic Books of the Year.” In September, 2009, he collected his short stories into a book titled Growing Up as a Baby Boomer, all about one hero’s maturation from age 5 to age 45. His most recent novel is The Last Great Superpower in 2004. He and his wife Beverley live in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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