Many of us think we know the storey, but we don’t, and Erik Larson tells it in a fascinating way, rotating between hunter and pursued while creating a bigger vision of America during the Progressive Era. With a cast of evocative characters ranging 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 of new love, Dead Wake is full of glamour and suspense.
