The book vividly details the carnage as well as some acts of heroism and selflessness.” - Publishers Weekly A harrowing mosaic about a blaze during a time of racial divisions and environmental plundering…evocatively told. . . . “ City on Fire will stand on its own as one of the finest books ever written about Texas.” - Texas Observer “ the greatest life-or-death tales ever told.” - Esquire A terrific nonfiction work that has the narrative force of an adventure novel.” - Washington Post
A history of the 1947 disaster that rocked a segregated Texas boomtown and revealed disturbing negligence by the private sector and the US government.įirst published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.
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