Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving / Mo Rocca with Jonathan Greenberg ; illustrations by Mitch Butler.
"Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries--reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his #1 hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries, the book, he has gone much further, with all new essays on artists, entertainers, sports stars, political pioneers, founding fathers, and more. Even if you know the names, you've never understood why they matter...until now. Take Herbert Hoover: before he was president, he was the "Great Humanitarian," the man who saved tens of millions from starvation. But after less than a year in the White House, the stock market crashed, and all the good he had done seemed to be forgotten. Then there's Marlene Dietrich, well remembered as a screen goddess, less remembered as a great patriot. Alongside American servicemen on the front lines during World War II, she risked her life to help defeat the Nazis of her native Germany. And what about Billy Carter and history's unruly presidential brothers? Were they ne'er-do-well liabilities...or secret weapons? Plus, Mobits for dead sports teams, dead countries, the dearly departed station wagon, and dragons. Yes, dragons. Rocca is an expert researcher and storyteller. He draws on these skills here. With his dogged reporting and trademark wit, Rocca brings these men and women back to life like no one else can. Mobituaries is an insightful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for the rest of us, one that asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781432873882
- ISBN: 1432873881
- Physical Description: 375 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Waterville : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, Gale, Cengage Learning 2020
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
General Note: | "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Death of the fantastic: dragons (3000 BC-1735) and other mythological creatures we thought were real -- Death of a founding father: Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and other famously disembodied body parts -- Forgotten forerunner: Elizabeth Jennings (1827-1901) "The Rosa Parks of New York" -- Death of an influencer: Beau Brummell (1778-1840) and other dead fashion trends -- Death of an American story: Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1874) and other sideshow sensations -- Death of representation: The black congressmen of Reconstruction (1870-1901) and other political firsts who didn't make your high school history book -- Forgotten forerunner: Lois Weber (1879-1939) "When a woman ruled Hollywood" -- Death of Medieval Science (800-1928) and other science that was less than scientific -- Death of a Sports Team: Los Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo (1937-1937) and other teams you can't root for anymore -- Forgotten Forerunner: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) "The Byronic Woman" -- Death of a Country: Prussia (1525-1947) and other places you won't find on a map : Heroes of the New Jersey Turnpike -- Death of a Funny Girl: Fanny Brice (1891-1951) and other historical figures eclipsed by the actors who played them -- Before and After: The pre-presidency: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) and the post-presidency John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) the Mount Rushmore of Terrible Presidents : The Graveyard of Failed Presidential Candidates -- Forgotten forerunner: Moses Fleetwood Walker (1857-1924) " Before Jackie" -- Death of a diagnosis: Homosexuality as a Mental Illness (1952-1973) and other defunct diagnoses -- Reputation Assassination: A Story of Three Killings: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) and Disco (1970-1979) and other ruined reputations -- Forgotten forerunner: The Washington Movement (1840-1860) "Before AA" -- Death of a Brother: Billy Carter (1937-1988) and other black sheep siblings -- Death of the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. (1925-1990) and other one-eyed wonders -- Death of a Square: Lawrence Welk (1903-1992) and other victims of the "rural purge" -- Death of an Icon: Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) and other famous people commonly confused with each other -- Forgotten forerunner: Bessie Coleman (1892-1926) "The Aviatrix" -- Death of a Career: Vaughn Meader (1936-2004) The Story of Melba Moore's ill-fated sitcom (1986-1986) ; Where's Chuck? The Graveyard of disappeared and dead sitcom characters -- Died the Same Day: Farrah Fawcett (1947-2009) and Michael Jackson (1958-2009) and other famous people who died the same day -- Death of a Leviathan: The Station Wagon (1949-2011) and other things from the '70s that could've killed us -- Forgotten forerunner: Hadrian's Wall (128-1746) "The first Great Wall" -- Celebrities who put their butts on the line: Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), and Lord Byron (1788-1824) and other people famous for more than one thing -- Death of a Tree: the Live Oaks of Toomer's Corner (1937-2013) and other trees felled too soon -- Dedication: Marcel "Jack" Rocca (1929-2004). |
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Subject: | Mobituaries (Podcast) Obituaries. |
Genre: | Large print books. |
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Covington Branch | LT 920.02 R671m 2019 (Text) | 33126024137659 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
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