Veteran journalist Nat Brandt is the author of ten previous books, including The Man Who Tried to Burn New York and The Town That Started the Civil War. The former editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, Brandt was also an editor for The New York Times and managing editor of American Heritage.
[Brandt] deftly lays out the story of a tragedy waiting to happen in a city with a corrupt government and greedy businessmen.... In the one hundred years since the fire, the worldwide horror and anger over the Iroquois calamity has faded away. But Brandt's carefully documented, readable account reminds us what all the shouting was about. - Chicago Sun-Times ""This superior piece of historical investigative journalism will keep readers turning the pages until the bitter end."" - Booklist
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