Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
Author: R. Eli Paul
Date: 2023
ISBN: 1496233131
Pages: 376
Language: English
Category: Nonfiction
Posted on 2023-02-27, by temrick.
Description
In
1981 the suspended walkways—or “skywalks”—in Kansas City’s Hyatt
Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building
collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s Twin Towers
on 9/11. In Skywalks R.
Eli Paul follows the actions of attorney Robert Gordon, an insider to
the bitter litigation that followed. Representing the plaintiffs in a
class action lawsuit against those who designed, built, inspected,
owned, and managed the hotel, Gordon was tenacious in uncovering
damaging facts. He wanted his findings presented before a jury, where
his legal team would assign blame from underlings to corporate
higher-ups, while securing a massive judgment in his clients’ favor.
But when the case was settled out from under Gordon, he turned to another medium to get the truth out: a quixotic book project that consumed the rest of his life. For a decade the irascible attorney-turned-writer churned through a succession of high-powered literary agents, talented ghost writers, and New York trade publishers. Gordon’s resistance to collaboration and compromise resulted in a controversial but unpublishable manuscript, “House of Cards,” finished long after the public’s interest had waned. His conclusions, still explosive but never receiving their proper attention, laid the blame for the disaster largely at the feet of the hotel’s owner and Kansas City’s most visible and powerful corporation, Hallmark Cards Inc.
Gordon gave up his lucrative law practice and lived the rest of his life as a virtual recluse in his mansion in Mission Hills, Kansas. David had fought Goliath, and to his despair, Goliath had won. Gordon died in 2008 without ever seeing his book published or the full truth told. Skywalks is a long-overdue corrective, built on a foundation of untapped historical materials Gordon compiled, as well as his own unpublished writings.
But when the case was settled out from under Gordon, he turned to another medium to get the truth out: a quixotic book project that consumed the rest of his life. For a decade the irascible attorney-turned-writer churned through a succession of high-powered literary agents, talented ghost writers, and New York trade publishers. Gordon’s resistance to collaboration and compromise resulted in a controversial but unpublishable manuscript, “House of Cards,” finished long after the public’s interest had waned. His conclusions, still explosive but never receiving their proper attention, laid the blame for the disaster largely at the feet of the hotel’s owner and Kansas City’s most visible and powerful corporation, Hallmark Cards Inc.
Gordon gave up his lucrative law practice and lived the rest of his life as a virtual recluse in his mansion in Mission Hills, Kansas. David had fought Goliath, and to his despair, Goliath had won. Gordon died in 2008 without ever seeing his book published or the full truth told. Skywalks is a long-overdue corrective, built on a foundation of untapped historical materials Gordon compiled, as well as his own unpublished writings.
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