The Obits: The New York Times Annual 2012 (ePub)
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The obits. It's the first section many of us turn to when we open the paper, not to see who died, but rather to find out about who lived to discover the interesting lives of people who've made a mark.
A new annual that collects nearly 300 of the best of...
A new annual that collects nearly 300 of the best of...
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The obits. It's the first section many of us turn to when we open the paper, not to see who died, but rather to find out about who lived to discover the interesting lives of people who've made a mark.
A new annual that collects nearly 300 of the best of The New York Times obituaries from the previous year, The Obits Annual 2012 is a compelling, addictive-as-salted-peanuts who's who of some of the most fascinating people of the twentieth century. Written by top journalists each entry is a jewel, a miniature, nuanced biography filled with the facts we love to read, with the surprise and serendipity of life. There's David L. Wolper, the producer of Rootsand the story of how he got his start purchasing film footage from Sputnik. The jazz singer, Abbey Lincoln, and her change from glamorous performershe owned a dress of Marilyn Monroe'sto civil rights activist (she burned the Monroe dress). Owsley Stanley, the quirky perfecter of LSD, who blamed a heart attack on the fact that his mother made him eat broccoli as a child. Patricia Nealknown by most as a movie star, but her real life, filled with tragedy, adversity, and incredible professional ups and downs, is almost a surreal play of triumph and tragedy. Arranged chronologically, like the obits themselves, it's a deliciously random walk through the recent past, meeting the philosophers, newsmen, spies, publishers, moguls, soul singers, baseball managers, Nobel Prize winners, models, and others who've shaped the world.
A new annual that collects nearly 300 of the best of The New York Times obituaries from the previous year, The Obits Annual 2012 is a compelling, addictive-as-salted-peanuts who's who of some of the most fascinating people of the twentieth century. Written by top journalists each entry is a jewel, a miniature, nuanced biography filled with the facts we love to read, with the surprise and serendipity of life. There's David L. Wolper, the producer of Rootsand the story of how he got his start purchasing film footage from Sputnik. The jazz singer, Abbey Lincoln, and her change from glamorous performershe owned a dress of Marilyn Monroe'sto civil rights activist (she burned the Monroe dress). Owsley Stanley, the quirky perfecter of LSD, who blamed a heart attack on the fact that his mother made him eat broccoli as a child. Patricia Nealknown by most as a movie star, but her real life, filled with tragedy, adversity, and incredible professional ups and downs, is almost a surreal play of triumph and tragedy. Arranged chronologically, like the obits themselves, it's a deliciously random walk through the recent past, meeting the philosophers, newsmen, spies, publishers, moguls, soul singers, baseball managers, Nobel Prize winners, models, and others who've shaped the world.
Autoren-Porträt von William McDonald
William McDonald has been the obituaries editor at The New York Times since 2006. He started at the Times in 1988 and held numerous editorial positions, including being on the team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for the series "How Race Is Lived in America." He lives in New York City.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: William McDonald
- 2011, Englisch
- Verlag: Workman Publishing Company
- ISBN-10: 0761169423
- ISBN-13: 9780761169420
- Erscheinungsdatum: 11.11.2011
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