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Article: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. (Books).(Book Review) (book review)
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by Eric Klinenberg $27.50 cloth, 305 pp. ISBN 0-226-44321-3
AVAILABLE FROM: University of Chicago Press, www.press.uchicago.edu
PROS: An incisive, damning sociological analysis of the 1995 Chicago heat wave as a needless, excessive tragedy; it is a book that might save lives.
CONS: Almost no meteorology, repetitive, and a difficult read for weather aficionados.
Storms are impetuous; heat waves are insidious. Storms kill dramatically, sweeping victims away en masse with a dramatic show of unyielding force. Heat waves kill silently, picking victims one by one from the hidden closets of the cities. But when all is said and done, heat ...