A Night to Remember is a book written by Walter Lord. This book is based on the tragic night of April 14, 1912. The night the “unsinkable” Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord was only ten years old when he first had an interest in what happened the night the Titanic sank (Holt, Rinehart and Winston). He thought how exciting it would be to investigate all that went on that night. At the age of ten he talked his parents into taking him on the
E SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in