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This is Chance! : the shaking of an all-American city, a voice that held it together / Jon Mooallem.

Title
This is Chance! : the shaking of an all-American city, a voice that held it together / Jon Mooallem.
Author
Mooallem, Jon,
Publication
  • New York : Random House, [2020]
  • ©2020

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Description
xii, 315 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
The Good Friday, 1964, Anchorage, Alaska earthquake, and newscaster Genie Chance remaining on-air to broadcast events.
Subject
  • 1964
  • Alaska > Anchorage
  • Alaska Earthquake, Alaska, 1964
  • Alaska
  • Chance, Genie, 1927-1998
  • Earthquakes > Anchorage
  • Earthquakes
  • HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
  • NATURE / Earthquakes & Volcanoes
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Note
  • "This is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-315).
Contents
Epigraph -- Cast of Characters -- One Month Before: Sunday, February 23, 1964 -- Act One: Friday, March 27, 1964 -- Act Two: Saturday, March 28, 1964 -- Act Three: Sunday, March 29, 1964 -- One Week After: Friday, April 3, 1964 -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Sources -- Photo Credits -- Other Titles -- About the Author.
ISBN
  • 9780525509912
  • 0525509917
  • 9780525509936 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
99985884438
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries