When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America Tāme Iti Whether you are whipping up

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When the Lights Went Out: A History of Blackouts in America Tāme Iti Whether you are whipping upBlackoutswhether they result from military planning, network failure, human error, or terrorismoffer snapshots of electricity's increasingly central role in American society. Where were you when the lights went out? At home during a thunderstorm? During the Great Northeastern Blackout of 1965? In California when rolling blackouts hit in 2000? In 2003, when a cascading power failure left fifty million people without electricity? We often remember