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01784aam a2200289Ma 4500 001 59C45610947611EC9377849E3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220223010020 008 060419r20062005mauaf 000 0 eng 020 $a 9780306815010 (pbk) : 020 $a 030681501X 040 $a UKM $b eng $c UKM $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCL $d OCLCG $d NSB $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d OCL $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ma 082 04 $a 363.3790974461 100 1 $a Esposito, John C., $d 1940- $e author. $0 (local)388667 245 10 $a Fire in the grove : $b the Cocoanut Grove tragedy and its aftermath / $c John C. Esposito. 246 30 $a Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire tragedy 264 1 $a Cambridge, MA : $b Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, $c 2006, ©2005. 300 $a 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a On Saturday night, November 28, 1942, Boston suffered its worst disaster ever. At the city's premier nightspot, the Cocoanut Grove, the largest nightclub fire in U.S. history took the lives of 492 people-nearly one of every two people on the premises. A flash of fire that started in an imitation palm tree rolled through the overcrowded club with breathtaking speed and in a mere eight minutes anyone left in the club was dead or doomed. Esposito has fashioned both an incomparably gripping narrative and a vibrant portrait of the era. 610 20 $a Cocoanut Grove (Boston, Mass.) $x Fire, 1942. $0 (local)388669 650 0 $a Fires $z Boston $z Boston $x History $y 20th century. $0 (local)388671 651 7 $a Massachusetts $z Boston. $0 (local)328283 655 7 $a History. $2 lcgft $0 (local)342657 941 $a 1 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20220223011825.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=59C45610947611EC9377849E3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search