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The Portable Obituary - How the Famous, Rich, And Powerful Really Died (Paperback)
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The Portable Obituary - How the Famous, Rich, And Powerful Really Died (Paperback)
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No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go
sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must
ultimately meet their Maker--though some have departed this life
more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock and
roll, which performers ended their lives on the wrong note?What
famous U.S. bridge is named after an explorer who was eaten by
cannibals?Everyone wants to hit the lottery, but does Lady Luck
visit winners with deadly fangs?Plus: Learn the real fate of
Gilligan's Island castaways and all your favorite TV actors as well
as famous writers, senators, saints, dictators, and philosophers,
among many others.Michael Largo, the man who illuminated readers on
the myriad ways of death in Final Exits, has compiled a
fascinating, off-beat, and darkly humorous necrology that provides
the grim, often outrageous details about the passing of influential
persons. Meticulously researched--employing archaeological records,
published obituaries, official documents, and forensic
evidence--this authoritative, one-of-a-kind reference presents the
unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths, while
examining the various deeds, misdeeds, and lifestyle quirks that
hastened the demise and determined the departed's role in history
and popular myth. The Portable Obituary has the skinny on what made
our late icons--whether through overindulgence or neglect: on the
john, in the sack, or in some spectacular accident--what they are
today: dead!
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