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At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep.
For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death, and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West.
Matthew Davenport draws on letters, diaries, unpublished memoirs, and previously unearthed archival records, as well as interviews with engineers and geologists, to combine history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly.
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“The Longest Minute represents extraordinary research that weaves a thousand stories––from Jack London’s to a ten-year-old child’s––into one. Every page is intense.”
— John M. Barry, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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About Matthew J. Davenport
Matthew J. Davenport is the author of two books of history. First Over There won the Medal of Honor for History from The Daughters of the American Revolution and was a finalist for the 2015 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History. He is a litigation attorney who is a former prosecutor and veteran of the US Army Reserve, and he is a member of the Western Front Association, the American Legion, and the Military Writers Society of America.
About Traber Burns
Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.