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100 1 Rocca, Mo,|eauthor.
245 10 Mobituaries :|bgreat lives worth reliving /|cMo Rocca and
Jonathan Greenberg ; illustrations by Mitch Butler.
246 3 Mo bituaries
250 First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264 1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c2019.
300 375 pages :|bcolor illustrations ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
336 still image|bsti|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-375).
505 0 Death of the fantastic: dragons {3000 BC-1735} and other
mythical creatures we thought were real (mermaids, Kishi,
The Roc, Unicorns, Frankenberry) -- Death of a founding
father: Thomas Paine {1737-1809} and other famously
disembodied body parts (T-Pain, aka Faheem Rasheed Najm;
Einstein's rain, Grover Cleveland's jaw, Galileo Galilei's
middle finger, Louis XIV's heart) -- 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 (fur coats, corsets, hobble
skirts, the codpiece -- Death of an American story: Chang
and Eng Bunker {1811-1874} and other sideshow sensations
(Tiny Lavinia Warren, Captain Marin Van Buren Bates,
Victor the Wild Boy of Aveyon, Sara Baartman the Hottentot
Venus -- Death of representation: The black congressmen of
Reconstruction {1870-1901} and other political firsts who
didn't make your high school history book (Robert Smalls,
Blanche K. Bruce, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Robert Brown
Elliott, Susan Madora Salter, Ebenezer Don Carlos Bassett,
Charles Curtis, Harvey Milk, Romualdo Pacheco, Shirleey
Chisholm) -- Forgotten forerunner: when a woman ruled
Hollywood: Lois Weber {1879-1939} -- Death of Medieval
Science {800-1928} Alchemy, Astrology, Blodletting,
Scrying, and other less science that was less than
scientific (Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup; Cocaine;
Phrenology; Phlogiston Theory; Trepanning; Spontaneous
Combustion, Dr. Mamba's Miracle Balm) -- Death of a Sports
Team: Los Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo {1937-1937} and
other teams you can't root for anymore (The Philadelphia
Sphas; The New Jersey Generals; The Washington Senators;
Maurice Rocca's Little League Career) -- Forgotten
Forerunner: Thee Byronic Woman, Ada Lovelace {1815-1852} -
- Death of a Country: Prussia {1525-1947} and other places
you won't find on a map (Königsberg; Assyria; Republic of
West Florida; Tannu Tuva; Sodom and Gomorrah; Hanging
Gardens of Babylon) -- Heroes of the New Jersey Turnpike
(historic figures memorialized by rest stops on the NJT):
Clara Barton; John Fenwick; Walt Whitman; James Fenimore
Cooper; Richard Stockton; Woodrow Wilson; Molly Pitcher;
Joyce Kilmer; Grover Cleveland; Thomas Edison; Alexander
Hamilton; Vince Lombardi --
505 0 Death of a Funny Girls: Fanny Brice {1891-1951} and other
historical figures eclipsed by the actors who played them
(Calamity Jane/Doris Day; T. E. Lawrence/Peter O'Toole;
George S. Patton/George C. Scott; George M. Cohan/James
Cagney; Eva Perón/Patti LuPone; Marlene Dietrich/Madeline
Kahn; Maria von Trapp/Julie Andrews; Jame LaMotta/Robert
De Niro; Spartacus/Kirk Douglas) --Before and After:
Herbert Hoover {1874-1964} and John Quincy Adams {1767-
1848} with the Mount Rushmore of Terrible Presidents: A.
Johnson, Harding, Nixon, & Buchanan; The Graveyard of
Failed Presidential Candidates: William Jennings Bryan;
Pat Paulsen; Pigasus the Pig; Eugene V. Debs; Victoria
Woodhull; John Anderson; Alfred E. Smith; Alf Landon;
Gracie Allen; Henry Clay; Margaret Chase Smith; Aaron
Burr; Dr. Spock -- Forgotten forerunner before Jackie:
Moses Fleetwood Walker {1857-1924} -- Death of a diagnosis
: Homosexuality as a Mental Illness {1952-1973} and other
defunct diagnoses (Wandering Womb/The Vapours; Consumption,
Ague, the Grippe; Left-Handedness; Red Hair; Drapetomania)
-- Reputation Assassination: A Story of Three Killings:
Giacomo Meyerbeer {1791-1864}, Arnold Bennett {1867-1931}
and Disco {1970-1979} and other ruined reputations (Eve;
Fatty Arbuckle; Richard III; William Shakespeare) --
Forgotten forerunner before AA: The Washington Movement
{1840-1860} -- Death of a Brother: Billy Carter {1937-
1988} and other black sheep siblings (Branwell Brontë;
Seth; Magda Gabor; Gumma Marx; Donald Nixon) -- Death of
the entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. {1925-1990} and other one-
eyed wonders (Wiley Post; Andre DeToth; Polyphemus; Peter
Falk; Hannibal; Tex Avery; Elle Driver) -- Death of a
Square: Lawrence Welk {1903-1992} and other victims of the
"rural purge" (The Beverly Hillbillies; The Ed Sullivan
Show; The Andy Griffith Show; Bonanza; Gunsmoke) -- Death
of an Icon: Audrey Hepburn {1929-1993} and other famous
people commonly confused with each other (Davy Crockett &
Daniel Boone; Molly Pitcher & Molly Hatchet; Andrew
Johnson, Andrew Jackson; & Stonewall Jackson; Atilla the
Hun & Genghis Khan; Hubert Humphrey, Herbert Hoover, & J.
Edgar Hoover; Dom DeLuise & Paul Prudhomme; Alan Hale &
Nathan Hale; Joan of Arc & Joan Van Ark; Torquemada &
Savonarola & Casanova; Norman Fell & Norman Conquest; Gore
Vidal & Vidal Sassoon; Alvin Ailey & Beetle Bailey;
Nostradamus & Nosferatu) --
505 0 Forgotten forerunner, the Aviatrix: Bessie Coleman {1892-
1926} -- 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: Judy Winslow, "Family Matters"; Chico
Rodrigues, "Chico and the Man"; Martin, "Love, Sidney";
Susan Ross, "Seinfeld"; The cast of "Bewitched"; Mr.
Hooper, "Sesame Street"; Becky Conner, "Roseanne";
Chuckles the Clown, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"; Opie's
mother, "The Andy Griffith Show; Lieutenant Colonel Henry
Blake, "M*A*S*H" -- Died the Same Day: Farrah Fawcett
{1947-2009} and Michael Jackson {1958-2009} and other
famous people who died the same day: Mahatma Gandhi &
Orville Wright; John Adams & Thomas Jefferson; Ingmar
Bergman & Michelangelo Antonioni; Sammy Davis Jr. & Jim
Henson; Dick Sargent & Kim Il Sung; Orson Welles & Yul
Brynner; William Shakespeare & Miguel de Cervantes;
Margaret Thatcher & Annette Funicello; River Phoenix &
Federico Fellini; Dudley Moore, Milton Berle, & Billy
Wilder; Cecil B. DeMille & Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer -- Death
of a Leviathan: The Station Wagon {1949-2011} and other
things from the '70s that could've killed us: McDonald's
collectible drinking glasses; Quaaludes; Alar; Shag
carpeting; Jarts; Electric blankets; UFFI -- Forgotten
forerunner: The first Great Wall: Hadrian's Wall {128-
1746} -- 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: Paul WInchell; William Howard Taft;
Harold Sakata; Johnny Weissmuller; Hedy Lamarr; Matthew
Fontaine Maury; Carlton Cole Magee; Alan Thicke; Bert
Convy -- Death of a Tree: the Live Oaks of Toomer's Corner
{1937-2013} and other trees felled too soon: The world's
first Christmas tree; The tree of Ténéré; Anne Frank's
Chestnut Tree; The Giving Tree; The Spaghetti Tree; The
Senator; Augustine Washington's Cherry Tree -- Dedication:
Marcel "Jack" Rocca {1929-2004}.
520 "Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries -- reading about the
remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry,
innovators and artists. But not every notable life has
gotten the send-off it deserves. With Mobituaries -- the
book companion to the CBS podcast of the same name -- the
journalist, humorist, and history buff is righting that
wrong, profiling the people who have long fascinated him -
- from the 20th century's greatest entertainer... to
sitcom characters gone all too soon... to a shamefully
forgotten Founding Father. Even if you know the names,
you've never understood why they matter... until now. In
these pages, Rocca chronicles the stories of the people
who made a difference, but whose lives -- for some reason
or another -- were never truly examined. There's Thomas
Paine, whose Common Sense lit the fuse for the American
Revolution -- and whose paltry obit summed up his life
thusly: "He had lived long, did some good, and much harm."
And then there's screen icon Audrey Hepburn. She remains a
household name, but how much do we know about her wartime
upbringing and how it shaped the woman we fell in love
with? And what about Billy Carter and history's unruly
presidential brothers? Were they ne'er-do-well
liabilities... or secret weapons? As a correspondent for
CBS Sunday Morning and the host of The Henry Ford's
Innovation Nation, Rocca is an expert researcher and
storyteller. He draws on these skills here. With his
rigorous reporting and trademark wit, Rocca brings these
men and women splendidly 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." --|cProvided by publisher.
630 00 Mobituaries (Podcast)
650 0 Biography|vMiscellanea.
650 0 Obituaries.
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.|2bisacsh
650 7 HISTORY / Social History.|2bisacsh
650 7 HUMOR / Topic / History.|2bisacsh
650 7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00832149
650 7 Obituaries.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01042781
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
700 1 Greenberg, Jonathan,|ewriter.
700 1 Butler, Mitch,|eillustrator.
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