An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and selfindulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates.

Brewster, who created several bestselling books on the "Titanic," uses original research to intertwine, for the first time, the lives of the rich and famous within the powerful arc of the ship's dramatic demise to convey the poignance of this epochal disaster.

In this dazzling (John Irving) memoir, acclaimed New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend reflects on the pressures of middle age, exploring his relationship with his dying father as he raises two children of his own. How often does a memoir build to a stomach-churning, I-can t-breathe climax in its final pages? . . . Brilliant, intensely moving. William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days Almost everyone yearns to know their parents...

"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...