https://summaryshelf.app/authors/erik-larson/Recent content in Erik Larson on SummaryShelfHugoen-usSun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/isaacs-storm/Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/isaacs-storm/<p>Galveston drowned on September 9, 1900, not because the information was missing but because an agency had staked its authority on certainty. The U.S. Weather Bureau dismissed the Cuban forecasters who correctly read the storm, banned the telegrams that might have carried their warning, and assured a confident city that no hurricane could ever seriously harm it. Roughly 8,000 people died in the deadliest natural disaster in American history. Erik Larson&rsquo;s account makes the cause plain: they died of institutional pride, not of ignorance.</p>