{"product_id":"down-with-the-old-canoe-a-cultural-history-of-the-titanic-disaster-9780393316766","title":"Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steven Biel\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ships \u0026amp; Shipbuilding - History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProtestant sermons used the\u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines (\"Titanic Baby Found Alive!\" the \u003cem\u003eWeekly World News\u003c\/em\u003e declares) and a figure of everyday speech (\"rearranging deck chairs . . .\"), the \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408794706071,"sku":"9780393316766","price":2026.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780393316766.webp?v=1767310536","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/down-with-the-old-canoe-a-cultural-history-of-the-titanic-disaster-9780393316766","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}