Heat Wave: a Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

In this book, Klinenebery demonstrates the way in which the 1995 Chicago heat wave was as much a social, as a natural disaster and how the widening cracks in the social foundations of American cities have by no means subsided. Klinenberg uncovers how a number of surprising and unsettling forms of social breakdown contributed to the high fatality rates. 2002