Down with the Old Canoe. A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster

book summary

Everyone found moral and cultural lessons int hte sinking of the Titanic-sufragists and their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets. Like today's sensational news stories, symbolizing very different things to different people, Titanic has become and emblematic tale-one that continues its grip on the public imagination to this day.