Molly Brown Biography of Changing Nation

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The life of Margaret Brown spanned one of the greatest periods of change in American history. Her true significance was obscured by Hollywood and its manufactured moniker, Molly, but the real Margaret Brown story eclipses the movie mythology, revealing the rhythms of life in a rapidly changing nation. Molly Brown: Biography of a Changing Nation provides an authentic portrait of the progressive reformer who embodied the great movements of her time and the power of individual action.

The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to New Your City. There were 1,514 people that drowned in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Her passengers included some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as over one thousand immigrants from Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and elsewhere seeking a new life in America. At 2 o'clock in the morning on April 15, 1912, "The Unsinkable Titanic" sunk and today the story lives on.

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