Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanicâ€™s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers.Â

The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,â€ but until now, her story has not been presented as such. In Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage, historian Hugh Brewster seamlessly interweaves personal narratives of the lost linerâ€™s most fascinating people with a haunting account of the fateful maiden crossing.

Employing scrupulous research and featuring 100 rarely seen photographs, he accurately depicts the shipâ€™s brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers:Â millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt;Â writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet;Â movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon;Â aristocrat Noelle, the Countess of Rothes; and a host of other travelers. Through them, we gain insight into the arts, politics, culture, and sexual mores of a world both distant and near to our own. And with them, we gather on the Titanicâ€™s sloping deck on that cold, starlit night and observe their all-too-human reactions as the disaster unfolds. More than ever, we ask ourselves, â€œWhat would we have done?â€
Country USA
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-03-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-03-27
Format	Kindle eBook

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World

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