In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden tells of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in 1889 of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dam. It was a tragedy that cost 2,200 lives, implicated some of the most illustrious financiers of the day -- Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon -- whose carelessness contributed to the disaster, and irreparably changed the lives of those who survived it.
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This is the story of these men and of the families who lived in the shadow of the dam: the daughter of the lawyer who filed the charter for an exclusive club on the shore of the artificially created lake; the Quaker steel mill owner who tried to stop the dam's construction; a librarian, escaping to a bustling mountain city from a loveless life in Boston; a young man determined to expose and undermine the greed and carelessness that shaped the last years of the nineteenth century. A cautionary tale for our new century, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is a story of youthful promise and devastating loss, of power and its misuse, and of greed and the philanthropy that is too often a guilty by-product of it.
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