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02539aam a2200373 a 4500 001 787B8DD8E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 130325r20132012nyua b 001 0ceng d 010 $a bl2013011852 020 $a 0307984818 020 $a 9780307984814 (pbk.) 040 $a NjBwBT $c NjBwBT $d SILO 050 14 $a G530.T6 $b B73 2013 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 082 14 $a 920 $2 15 100 1 $a Brewster, Hugh. 245 10 $a Gilded lives, fatal voyage : $b the Titanic's first-class passengers and their world / $c Hugh Brewster. 246 30 $a Titanic's first-class passengers and their world 250 $a 1st pbk. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Broadway Paperbacks, $c [2013], c2012. 300 $a xii, 337 p. : $b ill. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a Originally published: New York : Crown, 2012. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references ( p. [311]-317) and index. 520 $a The Titanic has often been called "an exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era," 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 liner'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 ship's brief life and tragic denouement and presents compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers: millionaires John Jacob Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim; President Taft's closest aide, Major Archibald Butt; writer Helen Churchill Candee; the artist Frank Millet; movie actress Dorothy Gibson; the celebrated couturiere Lady Duff Gordon; 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 Titanic'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, "What would we have done?" 610 20 $a Titanic (Steamship) 610 20 $a Titanic (Steamship) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Upper class $z United States. $v Biography. 650 0 $a Ocean travel $v Anecdotes. 650 0 $a Shipwreck victims $v Biography. 650 0 $a Shipwrecks. $z North Atlantic Ocean. 941 $a 1 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20170203030142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=787B8DD8E9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search