Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. The Blasts
• 2. The Grandcamp
• 3. Chaos and Courage
• 4. Struggling for Order
• 5. The High Flyer
• 6. Aftermath
• 7. A Reckoning
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

"This is the best documented look at the Texas City disaster ever done." -- Robert B. Fairbanks, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington

About the Author

Hugh W. Stephens is a member of the Political Science Department and Associate Dean of Social Sciences at the University of Houston.