"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Eyewitness Accounts of the 1903 Iroquois Theatre Fire and Chicago's Urban Safety ReckoningBy Marshall Everett
Length9h 56m
About this audiobook
"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror is a contemporary documentary account of the Iroquois Theatre fire of December 30, 1903, one of the deadliest disasters in American theatrical history. Written in the urgent, commemorative style of early twentieth-century disaster literature, the book combines eyewitness testimony, moral reflection, reportage, and memorial portraiture. Its prose is dramatic but purposeful, situating the catastrophe within Progressive Era concerns about urban modernity, public safety, commercial negligence, and the fragility of civic confidence. Marshall Everett was the name attached to a number of rapidly produced topical works that sought to preserve sensational public events for a mass readership. His interest here is not merely in spectacle, but in documentation: the victims, the failures of management and inspection, and the grief of a city forced to confront preventable loss. The book's memorial impulse reflects an age when journalism, reform, and popular publishing often overlapped. This volume is recommended to readers of Chicago history, theatre studies, disaster narratives, and Progressive Era reform. It remains valuable as both a historical source and a cultural artifact, preserving how Americans first narrated tragedy, responsibility, and remembrance.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 25, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror (Annotated)
18CHAPTER XI.
2"Lest We Forget": Chicago's Awful Theater Horror
19CHAPTER XII.
3INTRODUCTION.
20CHAPTER XIII.
4MEMORIAL PRAYER.
21CHAPTER XIV.
5MEMORIAL HYMN.
22CHAPTER XV.
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6POEM BY A CHILD VICTIM.
23CHAPTER XVI.
7VERDICT OF CORONER'S JURY.
24CHAPTER XVII.
8CHAPTER I.
25CHAPTER XVIII.
9CHAPTER II.
26CHAPTER XIX.
10CHAPTER III.
27CHAPTER XX.
11CHAPTER IV.
28CHAPTER XXI.
12CHAPTER V.
29CHAPTER XXII.
13CHAPTER VI.
30CHAPTER XXIII.
14CHAPTER VII.
31CHAPTER XXIV.
15CHAPTER VIII.
32CHAPTER XXV.
16CHAPTER IX.
33CHAPTER XXVI.
17CHAPTER X.
34Memorable Quotes
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