![]() ![]() On the other hand, I now know far more than I care to know about President Wilson’s mushy courting of Edith Galt (who became his second wife). Larson’s approach is exclusively chronological it’s not a bad thing, but I found myself almost thinking out loud-“let’s get on with it”-as I navigated through the certainly more than adequate number of anecdotal scenes involving the ill-fated passengers and their clothing/meals/flirtations/premonitions/self-assurances…įull disclosure: to the end, I was rooting for passenger Theodate Pope to get some love in her life. Torpedoed by Germany’s U-20, the Lusitania went down in about 18 minutes. I confess that it’s hard to avoid the somewhat deadening spoiler in this story: from, we know how it’s going to end. Dead Wake offers a similar reading experience in Larson’s “no frippery” prose, and with a consistent tension that makes it a page turner. ![]() I’m a fan of Erik Larson, starting with The Devil in the White City. Book review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania ![]()
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