Dead Wake

Dead Wake

by Erik Larson

3 mentors recommend this 448 pages

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

ISBN: 9780553551624

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Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon

Finance & Investing

"Reads kind of like an action movie switching between the characters on the ship to the submarine crew who sinks them."

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George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin

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"[This author] is a journalist who writes non-fiction books that read like novels, real page-turners. This one is no exception."

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Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Blankfein

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"[The author] makes these narrow events -- gives a lot of texture to them and makes them feel very vivid."

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