Aftershocks Author:Richard S. Wheeler April 18, 1906. A devastating earthquake and fire levels San Francisco, one of the most exciting (and some say, wicked) cities in the United States. — In Aftershocks, Richard S. Wheeler plunges the reader into the midst of the calamity and its impact on the people of San Francisco: an architect, more concerned with what the destruction spe... more »lls for his career than what it means to has family; a photographer who captures the history of the moment in the faces of the stricken rather than in the rubble of buildings; an engineer whose involvement in the corruption of the city's government takes an awful toll; a missionary who aids the refugees but who cannot find a place for the love of a fellow human being; a soldier obsessed with getting rich from the despairing people he is supposed to help; and such celebrities as Enrico Caruso, John Barrymore, and Jack London.« less