Down with the Old Canoe - by Steven Biel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An immensely readable, provocative, and entertaining exploration of the Titanic as cultural icon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more--just Titanic, wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found ammunition in the <em>Titanic</em>--suffragists 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.<br /><br /> Protestant sermons used the <em>Titanic</em> to condemn the budding consumer society (We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster.). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an older kind of disaster in which people had time to die. An ever-increasing number of <em>Titanic</em> buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines (Titanic Baby Found Alive! the <em>Weekly World News</em> declares) and a figure of everyday speech (rearranging deck chairs . . .), the <em>Titanic</em> disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Biel shows--with style and wit, as well as scholarship--how the sinking of a ship nearly a century ago resonates through popular culture today."<br><br>"STEVEN BIEL'S MASTERFUL cultural analysis ... is brimming over with wit and insight."<br>
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