The Night the Lights Went Out, by the Staff of the New York Times. Edited by A. M. Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb | 
pick#booked2019 #spring #NightOrientedTitle 11/9/1965 5 PM rush hour , the power goes out in NYC ,involving 9 states & 3 Canadian provinces.800k people were stuck on the subways.If you got out to call family, the pay phone lines,insane.Phone Company had generators , airports did not.Where on the regional grid was the problem? Was it sabotage, or a broken part in the chain?NY Times put the paper together by candlelight,took it to the Newark to print
AmyG I remember this. I was 6. 5y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Pretty fascinating. I had just turned 1, so I don‘t remember. 5y
Leftcoastzen @AmyG @BarbaraTheBibliophage I was little too.My mom remembers it , we were already west so not directly affected. 5y
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RealBooks4ever Wow! I don't remember hearing about this! (I was living in the SF Bay Area) 5y
Cinfhen I wasn‘t born yet.... but it seems like something straight out of a movie plot! Very interesting. Was the book good??? 5y
Leftcoastzen @Cinfhen pretty good .It was put together by NY Times right after the event.Sometimes an “instabook” gives you that reportage without hindsight that is more in the moment than later books with more analysis. 5y
Cinfhen True but sounds fascinating! Blackouts were more common 40/50 years ago. Could U imagine if it happened now?!??? (edited) 5y
ValerieAndBooks I was a few weeks old but I guess it didn‘t affect us, living in CA at the time 😅! 5y