How to Survive the Titanic: Or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

When Titanic hit the iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and a thousand men, lighting their last cigarettes, prepared to die, J. Bruce Ismay, the ship’s owner and inheritor of the White Star fortune, jumped into a lifeboat with the women and children and rowed away to safety. Accused of cowardice as well as of being responsible for the crash, Ismay became perhaps the first person to be canceled in the media. His reputation was ruined, and he kept his head down and never spoke of the incident again. But he felt a desperate need to tell his side of the story to someone, if only to make sense of the trauma of the wreck and its aftermath., He spelled it all out in love letters he wrote to Marion Thayer, a first class passenger he had fallen head over heels for during the voyage. Those letters, newly rediscovered, are the basis of this history through the eyes of someone who for a time was the world's most reviled man. As the author shows, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them.

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