Farewell, godspeed : the greatest eulogies of our times
(2003)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
808.851/FAREWELL

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 808.851/FAREWELL Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Harmony Books, [2003]
©2003
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xi, 320 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
1400049466 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Maestros: Isadora Duncan by Max Eastman -- Bob Fosse by Neil Simon -- Keith Haring by Kay Haring -- Jerome Robbins by Mikhail Baryshnikov -- Gianni Versace by Madonna -- Andy Warhol by John Richardson -- Visionaries: Susan B. Anthony by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw -- Quentin Crisp by Louis Colaianni -- Che Guevara by Fidel Castro -- Helen Keller by Senator Lister Hill -- Martin Luther King by Benjamin E. Mays -- Karl Marx by Friedrich Engels -- Eleanor Roosevelt by Adlai Stevenson -- Ryan White by Rev. Ray Probasco -- Malcolm X by Ossie Davis -- Wisecrackers: Lucille Ball by Diane Sawyer -- Jack Benny by Bob Hope -- Stan Laurel by Dick Van Dyke -- Gilda Radner by Alan Zweibel -- Charles Schulz by Cathy Guisewite -- Captains of Industry: Andrew Carnegie by John H. Finley -- Henry Ford by Edgar Guest -- David Ogilvy by Jock Elliott -- John D. Rockefeller by Dr. Robert McCracken -- Charles Tiffany by Annabel A. Goan -- Matinee idols: Humphrey Bogart by John Huston -- Richard Burton by Emlyn Williams -- Bette Davis by James Woods -- James Dean by Rev. Xen Harvey -- Jack Lemmon by Larry Gelbart -- Walter Matthau by Charlie Matthau -- River Phoenix by Bill Reichert -- Mae West by Kevin Thomas -- Explorers & High Fliers: Challenger Astronauts by President Ronald Reagan -- Amelia Earhart by Muriel Morrissey -- Thomas Edison by J. F. Owens -- Albert Einstein by Ernst Straus -- Carl Jung by Laurens van der Post -- Timothy Leary by Winona Ryder -- Marshall McLuhan by John Culkin --

Tunesmiths & Troubadours: Chet Atkins by Garrison Keillor -- Irving Berlin by Samuel Goldwyn Jr. -- Sammy Davis Jr. by Gregory Hines -- Duke Ellington by Stanley Dance -- George Harrison by Eric Idle -- Janis Joplin by Ralph Gleason -- Laurence Welk by Shirley Welk Fredricks -- Movie Moguls: Stanley Kubrick by Jan Harlan -- Irving 'Swifty' Lazar by Larry McMurtry -- David O. Selznick by Truman Capote -- Billy Wilder by Larry Gelbart -- Darryl F. Zanuck by Orson Welles -- Wordsmiths: Erma Bombeck by Phil Donahue -- Emily Dickinson by Susan Dickinson -- Robert Frost by John F. Kennedy -- Dashiell Hammett by Lillian Hellman -- Lillian Hellman by William Styron -- Thedoror Seuss Geisel by Robert L. Bernstein -- Mark Twain by Rev. Henry Van Dyke -- Walt Whitman by Robert Green Ingersoll -- Virginia Woolf by Christopher Isherwood -- Camelot: John F. Kennedy by Chief Justice Earl Warren -- John F. Kennedy Jr. by Senator Edward Kennedy -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Senator Edward Kennedy

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