Buried Truths and the Hyatt Skywalks: The Legacy of America's Epic Structural Failure

by Richard A. Serrano

In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200. There never was a public trial, nor a full airing of everything that went wrong. Richard A. Serrano shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the disaster at the time; now he returns to the tragedy to learn all that went wrong, how it could have been avoided, and what lasting effects persist today--for engineering and the legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612497152
• ISBN13: 9781612497150
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.2"