A Weekend in September

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A Weekend in September is a 1957 book by John Edward Weems. [1] It is about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

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A 1980 reprinting was published by the Texas A&M University Press. [1] In 2005 the university made the book's 10th printing. [2]

Weems had interviewed people who had experienced the events and used other sources from the era. [1]

Reception

Dean R. Larson of Purdue University Calumet (now Purdue University Northwest) stated that the imagery is "so alive with detail that this reader needed a self reminder that the book is not fiction". [2]

Ralph A. Wooster of Lamar University stated that the research was "skillful". [1]

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wooster, p. 298.
  2. 1 2 Larson, p. 1.
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