 Then it takes the reader into the investigation of the disaster by the United States Senate, led by Michigan Senator William Alden Smith.The book concludes with a look at resulting legislation and its legacy in society.In trying to draw lessons from these events, Wade writes, ""Titanic" was the incarnation of man’s arrogance in equating size with security; his pride in intellectual (divorced from spiritual) mastery; his blindness to the consequences of wasteful extravagance; and his superstitious faith in materialism and technology.