Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy

Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated): How Did They Die? Fitting Ends and Final Resting Places of the Famous, Infamous, and Noteworthy image
ISBN-10:

157912822X

ISBN-13:

9781579128227

Author(s): Benoit, Tod
Edition: Updated
Released: Aug 01, 2009
Format: Paperback, 560 pages
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Description:

Updated with dozens of entries of the newly dead and now in paperback, an irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures.

This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased?from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers all the pertinent details on how they lived and died. It is also a detailed atlas of where they are buried.

Each entry in this fascinating book includes an entertaining capsule biography full of little-known facts, a detailed description of each subject's death, and very specific directions to the location and site of the grave. Fifty photos and informative sidebars (on such topics as how to find anyone's grave) round out this indispensable field guide to the "permanent addresses" of the world's most significant late citizens.

New additions to the roster of final resting places include: ? Tim Russert ? Heath Ledger ? Norman Mailer ? Anna Nicole Smith ? George Carlin ? Rosa Parks ? Hunter S. Thompson ? Paul Newman ? Katharine Hepburn ? and many more


























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