A Wonderful Life: 50 Eulogies to Lift the Spirit - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1565125118 ISBN 13: 9781565125117

Casa editrice: Algonquin Books, 2006

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The lives of the world’s greatest contributors to arts, politics, sports, and letters are celebrated with wit, humor, and reverence by their equally famous friends,
relatives, and peers.

Here are fifty eulogies, fond remembrances of the twentieth century’s best and brightest:

World Pioneers: Martin Luther King Jr. honored by Robert Kennedy, Mahatma Gandhi by Jawaharlal Nehru

Movie Stars: Joan Crawford remembered by director George Cukor, Orson Welles by Charlton Heston

Media Titans: Katharine Graham celebrated by Ben Bradlee, Edward R.Murrow by Charles Kuralt

Entertainers: John Belushi by Dan Aykroyd, Bob Hope by Larry Gelbart

Composers and Singers: Jerry Garcia by Robert Hunter, Leonard Bernstein by Ned Rorem

Athletes: Mickey Mantle by Bob Costas, Arthur Ashe by Douglas Wilder

In these moving and personal tributes, we see the true personalities of these fifty remarkable people, shadings of character usually hidden from the spotlight.

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The farewells gathered in this collection celebrate the lives of some of the most famous figures of the twentieth century, writen in most instances by their equally famous peers. Informed by wit, humor, and affection, these minibiographies include rare insight and provide a real understanding of what made these people so exceptional.
Cyrus Copeland, in his second compilation of eulogies, has collected fifty inspiring tributes that honor icons from the realms of entertainment and the arts, government and politics, science and the media.
Here we have famed film director George Cukor revealing Joan Crawford's greatest love affair—with the camera; sex research guru Alfred Kinsey memorialized by his longtime secretary; Bill Clinton on how Rosa Parks changed our world; Charles Kurault on the awe he felt in working with Edward R. Murrow; chef Jacques Pépin calling Julia Child an "antisnob"; Dan Aykroyd celebrating his friendship with John Belushi; the uniqueness of Leonard Bernstein as described by friend and fellow composer Ned Rorem; a poem written by Robert Hunter to honor Jerry Garcia; Bob Costas's homage to his greatest hero, Mickey Mantle. In addition, there are eulogies for several 9/11 heroes, and tributes to parents by three distinguished writers.
As Copeland notes in his introduction, a good eulogy can be "a bridge between the living and the dead, between us and them, memory and eternity....A great eulogy assures us that our loved ones will endure in our collective memories." And so, in these pages, fifty memorable people come alive again and, thanks to these eulogies, will continue to live in our memory.

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• Editore: Algonquin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1565125118
• ISBN 13: 9781565125117
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Redattore: Copeland Cyrus M.