Where There's a Will.: Who Inherited What and Why

Silverman, Stephen M.

ISBN 10: 0060922575 / ISBN 13: 9780060922573

Published by Perennial, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where There's a Will.: Who Inherited What and Why
• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060922575
• ISBN 13: 9780060922573
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Reveals what the wills of famous people--Bob Fosse, Judy Garland, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Andrew Carnegie, Lou Gehrig, and others--contained and what the heirs thought of their legacies

From Library Journal

This book is the logical extension of the late Malcolm Forbes's They Went That-a-way: How the Famous , the Infamous and the Great Died (S. & S., 1988; Ballantine, 1989. pap.): what happened to their loot after they died. Like Forbes's book, this one has a vaguely necrophilic appeal; it's not surprising that two of the even-more-revered-in-death celebrities, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, are among the 40 will styles of the rich and famous discussed (Dean left no will; MM was surprisingly organized and clear in hers). The book has rather slight value but may please gossip addicts and trivia nuts. What's revealed is that even the most creative, seemingly other-worldly people agitate over their material legacies. "In the end, art is small beer," wrote W. H. Auden. "The really serious things in life are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite, and loving one's neighbor." For public libraries where the Forbes book proved popular. --Judy Quinn, "Library Journal"
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