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Language: English
Published by Chronicle Books LLC, 2002
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- Title
- What a Way to Go : Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous
- Author
- Brown, Adele
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books LLC
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 081182750X
- ISBN 13
- 9780811827508
- Edition
- 1st.
- Item weight
- 1.003 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
A&E Biography meets Tales from the Crypt in this fun but respectful survey of the amazing lives and astonishing funerals of two dozen twentieth-century icons from politics, art, and pop culture. In more than 50 rare photographs and thoroughly researched profiles, What a Way to Go showcases all the colorful details of each subject's death, funeral service, and burial. From Muppet creator Jim Henson's upbeat service, attended by Big Bird, to Babe Ruth lying in state at Yankee Stadium as vendors sold hot dogs to waiting mourners--it's all here, the moving and the macabre. JFK, Notorious B.I.G., Elvis Presley, Chairman Mao, Eva Peron, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and many more find fitting tribute in this compulsively readable, visually lavish, richly entertaining celebration of our enduring fascination with the famous and the strange pageantry of their demise.
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About the Author
Adele Q. Brown is a New York-based researcher and writer. This is her first book.
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