Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Eric Klinenberg

320 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective slow-paced
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. M...

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