THE LONGEST MINUTE
THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE OF 1906
MATTHEW J. DAVENPORT
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm.
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—John M. Barry, #1 bestselling author of The Great Influenza
“Narrative history of the highest order.”
—Buddy Levy, bestselling author of Empire of Ice & Stone and Labyrinth of Ice
“Kaleidoscopic and comprehensive.”
—Stephen Tobriner, Professor Emeritus of Architectural History, University of California Berkeley