A Weekend in September is a 1957 book by John Edward Weems.[1] It is about the 1900 Galveston hurricane.

A 1980 reprinting was published by the Texas A&M University Press.[1] In 2005 the university made the book's 10th printing.[2]

Weems had interviewed people who had experienced the events and used other sources from the era.[1]

Reception

Dean R. Larson of Purdue University Calumet (now Purdue University Northwest) stated that the imagery is "so alive with detail that this reader needed a self reminder that the book is not fiction".[2]

Ralph A. Wooster of Lamar University stated that the research was "skillful".[1]

References

  • Larson, Dean R (2009). "Review of A Weekend in September". Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. 6 (1). doi:10.2202/1547-7355.1641 – via DeGruyter.
  • Wooster, Ralph A (1980). "A WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER [Galveston] by John Edward Weems (Book Review)". Arizona and the West. 22 (3): 298-299. JSTOR 40168965.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Wooster, p. 298.
  2. 1 2 Larson, p. 1.
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