The Great Fire Lib/E
Taylor Mali
(Read by)
Description
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American history-with damage so profound that few people believed the city of Chicago could ever rise again. By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with careful research, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting and dramatic narrative, ultimately revealing how the human spirit triumphed even in a time of deepest despair, and the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.
Product Details
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Publish Date | April 30, 2010 |
| Pages | 2 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  CD-Audio |
| EAN/UPC | 9781883332921 |
| Dimensions | 6.6 X 6.8 X 1.0 inches | 0.5 pounds |
About the Author
Jim Murphy is an editor and writer with more than a dozen books for young readers to his credit. Research Mr. Murphy was doing on the Civil War inspired his book The Boys' War, as well as The Long Road to Gettysburg.
Taylor Mali is the former president of Poetry Slam, Inc., and one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement. He is the author of two books of poetry, What Learning Leaves and The Last Time as We Are, and four CDs of spoken word. He has appeared on the first two seasons of HBO's Def Poetry Jam and won the jury prize for best one-man show at the United States Comedy Arts Festival. A passionate advocate of teachers, he travels the country recruiting the next generation of teachers with his 1,000 Teachers Campaign. Taylor lives in New York.
Reviews
[A] diversity and multitude of personal accounts...[provides] a better appreciation of the event as a dynamic experience from which we still have much to learn.
-- "School Library Journal"Listening to The Great Fire narrated by Taylor Mali is like watching a History Channel program with one's eyes closed...Slam poet Mali conveys the terror, rage, and hope reborn experienced by the stunned Chicagoans...[it] will burn in memory long after the recording ends.
-- "AudioFile"Strategically quoting the written accounts of witnesses...[the book] charts the thirty-one-hour spread of the fire and conveys the atmosphere in the streets...Engrossing.
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