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McGs.: The Best Obituaries from Legendary New York Times Reporter Robert
McG. Thomas Jr.
by Robert McG. Thomas Jr., Chris Calhoun (Editor)
Our Price: $14.95
The New York Times received countless letters over the years from readers moved to tears or laughter by a
McG. Eschewing traditionally famous subjects, Thomas favored unsung heroes, eccentrics, and underachievers, including: Edward Lowe, the inventor of Kitty Litter ("Cat Owner's Best Friend"); Angelo
Zuccotti, the bouncer at El Morocco ("Artist of the Velvet Rope"); and Kay
Halle, a glamorous Cleveland department store heiress who received sixty-four marriage proposals ("An Intimate of Century's Giants").
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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
by Marilyn Johnson
Our Price: $22.46
The New York Times comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead.
Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead.
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The Economist Book of Obituaries
by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe
Our Price: $23.95
For more than a decade,
The Economist has included unique and original obituaries in a quite popular column. The obituaries are remarkable because of the unpredictable selection of people written about, the surprising lives they led, and the brilliant writing style. This volume gathers two hundred of the best obituaries.
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Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary
Lives
by Jim Sheeler
Our Price: $12.60
Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he will tell for the last time. Most are unknowns, but that doesn’t mean they’re nobodies. Their obituaries are sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, and chock full of life lessons as taught by the people we all pass on the street every day.
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The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died
by Michael Largo
Our Price: $13.46
Here at last is the definitive source book on the true causes of death of public figures––providing the ultimate demise of heroes and icons, politicians and celebrities, inventors and explorers, business leaders and sports figures, as well as the unlikely endings of radicals, murderers, feminists, Nobel Prize winners, and others. Author Michael Largo makes clear that life, famous or not, can only be fully understood backwards.
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