R Eli Paul

Skywalks

Robert Gordon's Untold Story of Hallmark's Kansas City Disaster

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Produktbeschreibung

Skywalks is the story of the 1981 Hyatt Regency Kansas City hotel disaster that killed 114 people, as told through the actions of Kansas City attorney Robert Gordon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781496233134
• ISBN-10: 1496233131
• Artikelnr.: 63659899

Autorenporträt

R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, and the National World War I Museum. Paul is the author or editor of several books, including Eyewitness at Wounded Knee (Nebraska, 2016), Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas, and Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854–1856.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Dramatis Personae
Prologue
1. The Tapes
2. Molly Riley, a Class Act
3. Robert Charles “Bobby” Gordon
4. One in a Hundred Lawsuits
5. Hallmark’s Kansas City
6. The Deponent
7. The Federal Skywalk Cases
8. Setback
9. Betrayal
10. Writer
11. House of Cards
12. The Gordon Thesis
13. Rinse and Repeat
14. What Might Have Been
15. Excerpt
16. Interruptions
17. Finales
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Selections from the Deposition of Donald Joyce Hall
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index