The Bosses Club

The conspiracy that caused the Johnstown Flood,
destroying the iron and steel capital of America

Richard A. Gregory

 

 

Author Richard A. Gregory offers a comprehensive, extensive read about a history most people are not familiar with—but should have been an important subject of this country’s history—in The Bosses Club: The conspiracy that caused the Johnstown Flood, destroying the iron and steel capital of America.

 

He shares this town’s story… and why it was destroyed.

As he tells this part of history, almost buried and forgotten, he encompasses various topics as well. He includes the subject of transportation, everyday citizens of Johnstown, and industrialists like George King, Daniel Morrell, and Morrell's soon-to-follow nemesis Andrew Carnegie.

The author has used a history-book approach for facts, fictional dialogue for the real characters in the story, and a chronological approach for the evolution of the iron and steel industry.

“When I set out to write this story I just wanted to point out what the people of the Conemaugh Valley had accomplished in transforming this country’s iron industry into steel. But my research has uncovered a preponderance of circumstantial evidence that has made me question the current settled history as to who should be blamed for the flood,” says the author.  And in this book, he goes back further into the past to explain how such an unlikely place developed into this nation’s first bustling steel center.