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Profiles of the central personalities involved in the career of the SS Eastland help to bring this compelling tale to life.

After more than a decade of research, journalist and Chicago resident Michael McCarthy shares a heartbreaking history in Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland and the Shipwreck that Shook America. McCarthy gives this little-known Lake Michigan tragedy a thorough and compassionate telling and covers the media frenzy and indictments that followed.

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This review was published on November 27, 2014 by ForeWord Reviews.

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