Nonetheless, this tale is evocatively told. The impact of the story is marred only by slight gaffes: Minutaglio sometimes switches between past tense and present without clear reason. From a priest beset with apocalyptic visions to a battle-scarred mayor, these and other residents come to life. He pauses to fill in the manufacturing town's pivotal role in WWII and sketches the principals involved in the gargantuan fire. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty) assembles a harrowing mosaic about a blaze during a time of racial divisions and environmental plundering amid petrochemical companies that virtually ruled Texas City, Tex. Was it an atomic blast? Terrorism? Judgment Day? The author ( First Son: George W. Two oceangoing freighters loaded with ammonium nitrate leveled a factory town in 1947. Like the explosions it describes, Minutaglio's account is incendiary reading.
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