Titanic Victims and Villains Victims & Villains

by Molony, Senan

• ISBN13: 9780752445700
• ISBN10: 0752445707
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-11
• Publisher: Tempus

Summary

Why is so much heroism attached to the sinking of the Titanic? Why do we accord impossible glory to the miserable, misbegotten drowning of the equivalent of a small town? What process led to the creation of champions? Who were the real heroes, and how were they overlooked? What did society - and the press - do with an overriding need for blame?

Table of Contents

Titanic
The Evil That Men Do: Nature, nostrums, and a man-made disaster	p. 7
Comparisons are Odious: Two Managing Directors, Majors, Margarets	p. 27
Conscience and the Captain: Responsibility returns to the ship	p. 47
The Board and the Betrayed: Officialdom and the stable door	p. 65
Further, Good Myth, from Thee: Musicians, engineers, and surviving crew	p. 75
Californian
A Gleam in the Night: And other ones elsewhere	p. 95
Shadow and Substance: The fictions in findings of fact	p. 115
In Black and White: Reputation and demonisation	p. 133
A Gathering Darkness: Time, the thief of truth	p. 149
Perceptions: Phantasms and photogenics	p. 167
Distance and Discernment: Infamy and infalliability	p. 185
Postscript	p. 205
Index	p. 217
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