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

" How do you make good, in words, on the life of another human being? The real challenge of the task is evident on every page....A fascinating collection of memorial remarks about 64 well-known figures." -- "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" " You might not think of eulogies as the same thing as love stories, but here....they most certainly are. This is an extraordinary collection of 64 goodbyes to the famous from the (mostly) famous." -- "The Boston Globe"

Here are fifty eulogies, fond remembrances of the twentieth century's best and brightest: World Pioneers: Martin Luther King Jr. honoured 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; and 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.