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Mobituaries great lives worth reliving

Rocca, Mo (author.). Greenberg, Jonathan (author.). Butler, Mitch (illustrator.).

Summary: Mobituaries chronicles the stories of the people who made a difference, but whose lives--for some reason or another--were never truly examined. It is an insightful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for everyone else.

Record details

ISBN: 1432873881
ISBN: 9781432873882
Physical Description: 697 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
large print
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2020.
Copyright: ©2019

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Formatted Contents Note:

Death of the fantastic: dragons {3000 BC-1735} and other mythical 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}.