Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Texas City Police Department
- The Priest: April 7, 1947
- The Voyage: April 7, 1947
- The Priest: April 8, 1947
- The Ship: April 8, 1947
- The Company: April 9, 1947
- The Ship: April 9, 1947
- The Priest: April 9, 1947
- The Ship: April 10, 1947
- The Mayor: April 10, 1947
- The Ship: April 10, 1947
- The Mayor: April 10, 1947
- The Warning: April 14, 1947
- The Ship: April 14, 1947
- The Priest: April 16, 1947, 6:00 A.M.-9:12 A.M.
- The People: April 16, 1947, 6:00 A.M.-9:12 A.M.
- The First Words from Texas City: April 16, 1947, 9:12 A.M.
- The Scientist: April 16, 9:12 A.M.
- The Mayor: April 16, 1947, 9:12 A.M.
- The City: April 16, 9:12 A.M.
- The Mayor
- The People: April 16, 1947, 9:12 A.M.
- Photo Section
- The Priest: April 16
- The Second Explosion: April 16, 10:00 A.M.-Midnight
- The President: April 17, 1947
- The City: April 17, 1947
- The City: April 18, 1947
- The Gangster: April 19, 1947
- The Priest: April 24, 1947
- The Unknown Dead: June 22, 1947
- The Mayor: August 23, 1947
- “United States of America, Defendant”: April 1948
- The Trial: April 1950
- “By Direction of the President of the United States”:
1949-1952
- The King Can Do no Wrong: Summer 1953
- “Speak Freely”: Fall 1953
- “Pleased to Advise”: 1954-1955
- Good People: April 2001
- Acknowledgments
About the Author
Bill Minutaglio is author or coauthor of eight books, including
Dallas 1963, In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black
Texas, First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, and
Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life. His writing has appeared in the New York
Times, Esquire, Newsweek, Outside: The Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. He has
been interviewed on the Today Show, CNN, NPR, PBS, and the BBC. He
lives in Austin, Texas.
Reviews
"City on Fire, [is] Bill Minutaglio's 2003 narrative account of the
April 16, 1947 Texas City explosion, one of the worst disasters in
American history." - Bryan-College Station Eagle "The definitive
work on that event" - KUT News "The disaster has had many stories
written about it, but none of them have been told as in the
thoughful and easy to read City on Fire...The Book does not treat
the event as a news story, but as an account of human suffering,
racial problems, industrial carelessness, legal tangles and
responsibilities [...] thrilling and illuminating Reading for
anyone interested in the event." - The Mexia News
