Virtual floating palaces, in their heyday ocean liners provided well-to-do passengers with a style of travel unmatched in glamor and elegance. Now noted maritime authority William H. Miller, Jr., author of numeraus other best-selling picture histories of the world's great passenger fleets, has compiled a loving tribute to American ocean liners. This authoritative volume contains approximately 200 black-and-white photographs-most never belore published-documenting the majestic exteriors and stylish, impeccably maintained interiors of more than 100 ships, including the Leviathan, America's first superliner; the beautifully outfitled America, which blended luxury with a leeling of coziness; the lndependence and the Constitution, with their two Hollywood-style swimming pools; the President Polk and the President Monroe, each with a wood-burning fireplace in the mai n lounge; and, finally, the magnificent United States, which "was well ahead in almost every way of every other pasenger ship then afloat." Other luxury cruise ships presented in this book include the Argentina, the Lurline, the Celebration, and the lmagination. Detailed captions pravide a wealth of inlormation on tonnage, speed, size, and passenger load. This comprehensive visual record-painstakingly printed on coated stock-will delight mariti me historians and ocean-liner enthusiasts everywhere.