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Writer and filmmaker Michael Bockman has four produced screenplays to his credits. His feature screenplay about the Beat Generation, Starving Hysterical Naked, is the basis for the short film he directed (available for viewing on YouTube).
Between screenwriting assignments he has written numerous articles that have been published in newspapers and magazines. He has collaborated on three best-selling self-help books with English author Lynne Franks. -- Grow (Hay House), Bloom (Chronicle Books) and The Seed Manifesto (Thorsons). THE TITANIC PLAN is his first novel. He divides his time between Santa Monica, California and Zurich, Switzerland.
Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
On October 16, 1907, J.P. Morgan received a note while attending Sunday church service. Speculators tried to take over the United Copper Company but their bid fell apart, leaving the mining company in ruins, and a bank and two brokerage houses destroyed. Morgan offers to merge his U.S. Steel with Tennessee Coal and Iron, Teddy Roosevelt okays the merger and Morgan saves the U.S. economy. Meanwhile, southerner Archibald Butt goes to work for Teddy Roosevelt and stays on when William Howard Taft becomes President. Archibald or Archie was a close friend of Michael Shaughnessy when they served in the army in the Spanish-American War. Shaughnessy hates the way the poor and the average worker are not treated well, how they work long hours for small wages. He appears to be allied with Emma Goldman and Bill Haywood. But he is also working as a government agent to report on their "subversive" activities and Archie becomes involved. Meanwhile, millionaire capitalist John Astor becomes involved with other men of great wealth, namely Vanderbilt, Benjamin Guggenheim, Isador Strauss and others, in planning a group of American cities of the future that they will finance to ignite American enterprise. Urged by President Taft, Archie trails them to Rome and then back home as they all set sail for New York on the Titanic. Financier J.P. Morgan remains behind in Europe as does Vanderbilt while the Titanic hits an iceberg or was it an explosives that sank that great illustrious ship?
"The Titanic Plan" takes actual events in United States history from 1907 up to April 1912 and recreates those events, making them come alive in this well-written, well-edited story. Archibald Butt and many others who really existed come alive in this version of what really happened all those long years ago. The author gives great credit to his friend Ron Freeman who originally developed this story which is based upon actual events. Emma Goldman, Bill Haywood, Presidents Roosevelt and Taft and many others are characters in "The Titanic Plan" and they are true to themselves and dialogue is totally in keeping with what the characters would be saying to each other in those days. "The Titanic Plan" is a book that everyone should have on their list of "must-reads", especially if they are fans of United States history and most definitely if they love 'Titanic stories'.
