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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt : the unlikely hero of the Lusitania / Steven H. Gittelman and Emily Gittelman.

Title
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt : the unlikely hero of the Lusitania / Steven H. Gittelman and Emily Gittelman.
Author
Gittelman, Steven H., 1949-
Publication
Lanham, MD : Hamilton Books, c2013.

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Additional Authors
Gittelman, Emily.
Description
vi, 279 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Vanderbilt, Alfred Gwynne, 1877-1915
  • Vanderbilt family
  • Lusitania (Steamship)
  • Heirs > Biography
  • Shipwrecks > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Biographies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-267) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1 Eighteen Minutes 1 -- 2 The Unlikely Heir 6 -- 3 The Gift 19 -- 4 An Equal Match 25 -- 5 Working Man: Whips, Skirts, and Coattails 39 -- 6 A Serpentine Curve: A Failure to Stop 56 -- 7 Extramarital Horsing Around 68 -- 8 A Whirling Abyss 77 -- 9 Severing Ties 94 -- 10 The Brighton Road 108 -- 11 A Reputation to Defend 120 -- 12 The Alibi 132 -- 13 In the Dark 147 -- 14 Indiscreet Romance 153 -- 15 A Rising Tide 166 -- 16 1914 179 -- 17 Leaving Pier 54 189 -- 18 At Sea 205 -- 19 Eighteen Minutes 225 -- 20 Aftermath 239.
ISBN
  • 9780761855064
  • 0761855068
LCCN
^^2012945969
OCLC
  • 809611921
  • SCSB-12643906
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library