A Review of: “One Hundred Years of Intermittent Controversy, Plus Occasional Scandal: Part I” Dennis Smith, San Francisco is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires. New York: Viking, 2005. 294 pp. $25.95 ("Smith Book" or "Smith"). Philip L. Fradkin, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 418 pp. $27.50 ("Fradkin Book" or "Fradkin"). Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. 462 pp. $27.95 ("Winchester Book" or "Winchester"). Sandor Demlinger, 1906 Earthquake: San Francisco's Great Disaster. Atglen (Pa.): Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2006. 143 pp. $24.95 ("Demlinger Book" or "Demlinger"). Michael Sean Quinn
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