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ISBN 9780312865276 (0-312-86527-9, 0312865279)

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312865279 (0-312-86527-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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On April 18, 1906, the great Golden Gate metropolis of San Francisco was struck by a devastating earthquake that, combined with resulting fires, leveled one of the most cultured, exciting--and, some say, wicked--cities in the United States.

In Aftershocks, Richard S. Wheeler plunges the reader into the midst of the earthquake in which thousands died, and tens of thousands were left homeless and destitute. Acts of heroism, self-sacrifice, depravity, and horror took place in equal numbers against a backdrop of such monumental destruction that many thought it Armageddon.

Wheeler's story of the great calamity is built around its victims, the people of San Francisco: an architect more concerned with what the destruction spells for his career that what it means to his family; a photographer who captures the history of the moment in the faces of the stricken rather than in the rubble of the buildings; a city engineer whose involvement in the corruption of the city's municipal government takes an awful toll; a missionary who has enough faith in God's love to aid the refugees but who cannot find a place for the love of a fellow human being; a soldier obsessed with getting rich from the helpless, despairing people he is supposed to help.

In Aftershocks, Wheeler introduces such historic earthquake-era figures as Enrico Caruso, John Barrymore, Jack London, and General Frederick Funston as he reconstructs San Francisco in its glittering heyday: its great hotels, its temples of finance, its literary and artistic centers--as well as its notorious Barbara Coast and Chinatown, its rat-infested sewers and graft-infested city hall. In his recent novel Second Lives, Richard S. Wheeler memorably re-created Gilded Age Denver; in Aftershocks, that Bohemia-by-the-Bay, San Francisco, comes to vivid life in its most despairing time. [via]

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The Buffalo Commons

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312862628 (0-312-86262-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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Cashbox

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312853823 (0-312-85382-3)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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Dark Passage

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312865260 (0-312-86526-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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The Deliverance

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312878443 (0-312-87844-3)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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Dodging Red Cloud

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0345356659 (0-345-35665-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group

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Downriver

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312878451 (0-312-87845-1)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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Eclipse : A Novel of Lewis and Clark

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 031287846X (0-312-87846-X)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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The Exile

by Richard S. Wheeler

ISBN 0312878478 (0-312-87847-8)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom

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The Life and Times of an Irish Patriot

When Thomas Francis Meagher arrived in New York in 1852, he was already a hero-"Meagher of the Sword"-known to every Irishman in the New World. His role as leader of the Irish Uprising of 1848 against British rule, combined with his revolutionary fervor, had earned him exile to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land , off the coast of Australia. He escaped and found passage to America, where he was celebrated as a man who had risked death to end the suffering of his native land.

In New York, Meagher became an attorney, married wealthy Libby Townsend, engaged in Tammany politics, supported Franklin Pierce's bid for the presidency, and gave brilliant "Young Ireland" speeches until the onslaught of the Civil War. Fighting for the Union, Meagher helped organize and command the Irish Brigade, and stood, sword in hand, at the forefront of its battles on such bloody ground at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville.

The war took its toll on Meagher's soul and spirit. By its end he was ruined spiritually and financially-until President Andrew Johnson appointed him acting governor of the Montana Territory. In this isolated outpost, the redoubtable Irishman faced formidable foes-hostile Indians, controlling vigilantes, and a government paralyzed by factionalism.

The Exile is the story of this dashing man of action, a man who inspired ballads and songs, a man who risked everything on behalf of his ideals. His legacy carries on through his name--Thomas Francis Meagher-still revered among the Irish everywhere.

Only Richard S. Wheeler, who has brought to life such historical characters as Bat Masterson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, could do justice to this giant of Irish history and folklore.

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