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• Commended for Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2012

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This is a tale of upheaval, in terms of both the earthquake and the politics, as the issue of segregation and Jim Crow became increasingly pressing. Recommended for those who appreciate books on natural disasters, American history, and the secret goings-on of the political world. -- Library Journal <br>

It's not simply a meditation on the earthquake and recovery nor is it just the story of the murder of former News and Courier editor Frank Dawson. Rather, it's a synthesis of these two events that, taken together, shed light on a city in a great state of flux: between the end of Reconstruction but before Jim Crow laws made clear that Southern blacks would be relegated to a lower rung. -- Charleston Post and Courier

<p> In 1886 an earthquake devastated Charleston as thoroughly as one did San Francisco 20 years later. South Carolina historians Williams and Hoffius present a vivid account of the disaster and the political aftermath. -- Publishers Weekly <br>

<p> A bittersweet portrait of America's bete noire city on the eve of Jim Crow. You come for the story and you leave feeling you've lived it. --Ted Rosengarten

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"Susan Millar Williams is the author of ""A Devil and a Good Woman, Too: The Lives of Julia Peterkin,"" winner of the Julia Cherry Spruill Award. She teaches American literature and creative writing at Trident Technical College and lives in McClellanville, south Carolina. Stephen G. Hoffius is the author of ""Winners and Losers,"" a prize-winning novel for young adults, and coeditor of ""The Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art"" and ""Northern Money, Southern Land: The Lowcountry Plantation Sketches of Chlotilde R. Martin."" A freelance author and editor, he lives in Charleston."

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