The Titanic: End Of A Dream
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
On the night of April 14, 1912, the grandest ship ever built met an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and in doing so shattered not just steel and iron but the Edwardian world's boundless faith in human progress. The Titanic: End of a Dream is a masterful work of narrative history that chronicles the complete story of the RMS Titanic — from its celebrated construction in Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard to the harrowing night of its sinking — and then turns its gaze to the explosive United States Senate inquiry that followed, laying bare the corporate negligence, class inequality, and hubris that sent over 1,500 souls to the bottom of the sea. Wyn Craig Wade writes with the precision of an investigative journalist and the narrative drive of a seasoned storyteller, drawing on the original Senate hearings transcripts and first-hand survivor accounts to present a damning portrait of an era's arrogance. The book is as much a social and political autopsy of the Gilded Age as it is a maritime disaster account, arguing that the Titanic's fate was no accident of nature but an almost inevitable consequence of unchecked ambition. Wade's meticulous research gives voice to the steerage passengers whose stories were long overshadowed by those of the wealthy elite — and in doing so, asks a question that still resonates: whose lives are we willing to risk for the sake of a dream?
Author: Wyn Craig Wade
Format: Hardback
Genre: Maritime history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Tanning and foxing
On the night of April 14, 1912, the grandest ship ever built met an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and in doing so shattered not just steel and iron but the Edwardian world's boundless faith in human progress. The Titanic: End of a Dream is a masterful work of narrative history that chronicles the complete story of the RMS Titanic — from its celebrated construction in Belfast's Harland & Wolff shipyard to the harrowing night of its sinking — and then turns its gaze to the explosive United States Senate inquiry that followed, laying bare the corporate negligence, class inequality, and hubris that sent over 1,500 souls to the bottom of the sea. Wyn Craig Wade writes with the precision of an investigative journalist and the narrative drive of a seasoned storyteller, drawing on the original Senate hearings transcripts and first-hand survivor accounts to present a damning portrait of an era's arrogance. The book is as much a social and political autopsy of the Gilded Age as it is a maritime disaster account, arguing that the Titanic's fate was no accident of nature but an almost inevitable consequence of unchecked ambition. Wade's meticulous research gives voice to the steerage passengers whose stories were long overshadowed by those of the wealthy elite — and in doing so, asks a question that still resonates: whose lives are we willing to risk for the sake of a dream?