The Day the Earth Caved In by Joan Quigley

The Day the Earth Caved In by Joan Quigley

Beginning on Valentine's Day, 1981, when twelve-year-old Todd Domboski plunged through the earth in his grandmother's backyard in Centralia, Pennsylvania, The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the nation's worst mine fire. In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers readers into the dramatic world of the underground blaze. Drawing on interviews with key participants and exclusive new research, Quigley paints unforgettable portraits of Centralia and its residents, from Tom Larkin, the short-order cook and ex-hippie who rallied the activists, to Helen Womer, the bank teller who galvanized the opposition, denying the fire's existence even as toxic fumes invaded her home. Like Jonathan Harr's A Civil Action, The Day the Earth Caved In is a seminal investigation of individual rights, corporate privilege, and governmental indifference to the powerless.

Joan Quigley first glimpsed the Centralia mine fire at age fifteen, during her grandmother's funeral at St. Ignatius Cemetery. A former Miami Herald business reporter, she is a graduate of Princeton and of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a recipient of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for this book.

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ISBN 13	9780812971309
ISBN 10	0812971302
Titre	The Day the Earth Caved In
Auteur	Joan Quigley
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Random House USA Inc
Année de publication	2009-04-14
Nombre de pages	288
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