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It's easy to overload on these "16 tragic true tales of death and destruction", because the moral of most is that people can be amazingly, as my niece was wont to say, "toopit!". Venality, corner-cutting and just plain what-were-you-thinking? idiocy underlies most of the tragedies here. And yet there's a certain fascination to these vignettes, too, igniting the same impulse that leads (some of us) to endless episodes of "Ice Road Truckers".
And the heroes. You'll find them aplenty. They rise in opposition to the "toopit" and try to save the day, or at least try to save as many people as they can.
John Stark Bellamy II has done an excellent job of illuminating some of the lowest points of Cleveland's history, in highly readable stories that immerse you in the action "as it happens" far better than the evening news. Take a stroll through time - and my favorite city - with him.
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KarenIrelandPhillips | Jan 6, 2016 |

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