Farewell, godspeed : the greatest eulogies of our times / edited by Cyrus Copeland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Copeland, Cyrus.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eulogies.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 320 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Harmony Books, [2003]

Summary:

From the Publisher: In the words used to eulogize the great and celebrated men and women of the world, we come as close as perhaps we ever will to seeing the warm humanity beneath their public personas. In Farewell, Godspeed, Cyrus M. Copeland has gathered some of the greatest of these writings about artists, scientists, writers, public servants, entertainers, and others who have captured our attention by making the world a better -or at least a livelier and more pleasant-place. Here is Andy Warhol's close friend describing Warhol's hidden spirituality. Albert Einstein's assistant describing his humanism. Edward Kennedy remembering with a brother's tenderness the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Larry McMurtry's lively and loving tribute to Irving "Swifty" Lazar. And Robert Bernstein, longtime publisher and friend of Dr. Seuss, wonderfully memorializing him with special, never-before-published verse. Also included are the eulogies of the Challenger astronauts by President Ronald Reagan. In these moving and personal tributes we see at last the vulnerabilities and nuances of character that are often hidden from the spotlight.

Contents:

Introduction

Maestros

Isadora Duncan / Max Eastman

Bob Fosse / Neil Simon

Keith Haring / Kay Haring

Jerome Robbins / Mikhail Baryshnikov

Gianni Versace / Madonna

Andy Warhol / John Richardson

Visionaries

Susan B Anthony / Rev Anna Howard Shaw

Quentin Crisp / Louis Colaianni

Che Guevara / Fidel Castro

Helen Keller / Senator Lister Hill

Martin Luther King / Benjamin E Mays

Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels

Eleanor Roosevelt / Adlai Stevenson

Ryan White / Rev Ray Probasco

Malcolm X / Ossie Davis

Wisecrackers

Lucille Ball / Diane Sawyer

Jack Benny / Bob Hope

Stan Laurel / Dick Van Dyke

Gilda Radner / Alan Zweibel

Charles Schulz / Cathy Guisewite

Captains Of Industry

Andrew Carnegie / John H Finley

Henry Ford / Edgar Guest

David Ogilvy / Jock Elliott

John D Rockefeller / Dr Robert McCracken

Charles Tiffany / Annabel A Goan

Matinee Idols

Humphrey Bogart / John Huston

Richard Burton / Emlyn Williams

Bette Davis / James Woods

James Dean / Rev Xen Harvey

Jack Lemmon / Larry Gelbart

Walter Matthau / Charlie Matthau

River Phoenix / Bill Reichert

Mae West / Kevin Thomas

Explorers & High Fliers

Challenger astronauts / President Ronald Reagan

Amelia Earhart / Muriel Morrissey

Thomas Edison / J F Owens

Albert Einstein / Ernst Straus

Carl Jung / Laurens van der Post

Timothy Leary / Winona Ryder

Marshall McLuhan / John Culkin

Tunesmiths & Troubadours

Chet Atkins / Garrison Keillor

Irving Berlin / Samuel Goldwyn Jr

Sammy Davis Jr / Gregory Hines

Duke Ellington / Stanley Dance

George Harrison / Eric Idle

Janis Joplin / Ralph Gleason

Laurence Welk / Shirley Welk Fredricks

Movie Moguls

Stanley Kubrick / Jan Harlan

Irving 'Swifty' Lazar / Larry McMurtry

David O Selznick / Truman Capote

Billy Wilder / Larry Gelbart

Darryl F Zanuck / Orson Welles

Wordsmiths

Erma Bombeck / Phil Donahue

Emily Dickinson / Susan Dickinson

Robert Frost / John F Kennedy

Dashiell Hammett / Lillian Hellman

Lillian Hellman / William Styron

Thedoror Seuss Geisel / Robert L Bernstein

Mark Twain / Rev Henry Van Dyke

Walt Whitman / Robert Green Ingersoll

Virginia Woolf / Christopher Isherwood

Camelot

John F Kennedy / Chief Justice Earl Warren

John J Kennedy Jr / Senator Edward Kennedy

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis / Senator Edward Kennedy

Acknowledgments

Credits and permissions.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Farewell, godspeed.

ISBN:

1400049466

9781400049462

OCLC:

52160277

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