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In September 1900, the prosperous island city of Galveston, Texas, was the glittering jewel of the Gulf Coast. In a matter of hours, an unpredicted Category 4 hurricane brought a massive storm surge that practically wiped the city off the map, claiming an estimated 8,000 lives. It remains the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. But what happened next changed the fabric of American cities forever.Faced with a completely destroyed infrastructure and an utterly incompetent local government, the surviving business leaders realized that traditional politics could not handle a...

The writings of many of the women considered in this volume have sunk into an oblivion from which their intrinsic merit should have preserved them. This is partly due to the fact that nearly all the books on literature have been written from a man's stand-point. While in other arts the tastes of men and women vary little, the choice of novels is to a large degree determined by sex.