| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Description |
697 pages (large print) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Physical Medium |
large print rdafs |
| Series |
Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir
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| Note |
"The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Rocca has always loved 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. Here he is righting that wrong, profiling the people who have long fascinated him, from dragons and sitcom characters to a shamefully forgotten Founding Father. Even if you know the names, you've never understood why they matter. But Rocca chronicles how these people made a difference. He brings these men and women splendidly back to life. -- adapted from back cover |
| Contents |
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 |
| Subject |
Biography -- Miscellanea.
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Mobituaries (Podcast)
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Obituaries.
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Large type books.
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Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst00832149.
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Obituaries. (OCoLC)fst01042781.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Large type books.
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Biographies.
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Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
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| Added Author |
Greenberg, Jonathan, author.
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Butler, Mitch, illustrator.
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| Added Title |
Great lives worth reliving |
| ISBN |
9781432873882 (large print) (hardcover) |
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1432873881 (large print) (hardcover) |
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9781501197628 (hardcover) |
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1501197622 (hardcover) |
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