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Biel, Steven Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
New York W. W. Norton & Co. (c.1996) 0-393-03965-X / 9780393039658 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[right lower front corner mildly bumped; jacket slightly wrinkled along top edge]. (B&W photos, illustrations) "...brimming over with wit and insight ... [the author] demonstrates that the Titanic was least of all an ocean-liner: from the instant it sank, it became a vessel for Americans' most extreme notions about technology, theology, commerce, politics, gender, race, and class. Dr. Biel expertly sifts the shifting interpretations of successive generations, for whom the only constant is a general insistence that the disaster must *mean* something. What you will find here is sometimes funny, often outlandish, and always fresh and fascinating." -- (from the jacket blurb by Dan Rather). Possibly the last work on the subject that did not need to mention Leonardo DiCaprio (although there is a passing reference to James Cameron' s then-forthcoming film on page 231). If anything, though, the subsequent phenomenal success of the movie was a resounding affirmation of the disaster's status as "one of the great mythic events of the twentieth century."
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