ToadyNerd reviewed Dead Wake by Erik Larson
Review of 'Dead Wake' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Very interesting story of the multiple motivations and perspectives that led to the Lusitania disaster.
480 pages
Published March 22, 2016 by Broadway Books.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
4 stars
(1 review)
It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love.