Fülszöveg
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Here, for your entrancement and enlightenment, are the exits made by 175 people famous sometime during the past 3,000 years. From ancient Greece to yesterday's headlines, Malcolm Forbes reveals the secrets surrounding the sometimes ironic, sometimes amazing, sometimes touching, sometimes surprisingly appropriate, and sometimes hilarious demises of people we thought we knew everything about, including:
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Christopher Columbus MataHari Jim Morrison
Amelia Earhart Jimmy Hoffa Babe Ruth
"Mama" Cass Elliot Billie Holiday Sitting Bull
William Faulkner Buddy Holly Karl Wallenda
Sigmund Freud HueyLong Oscar Wilde
Hermann Goering Senator Joseph McCarthy and many more!
and famous died, reporting their last words and the family fights that followed. I was up until the wee hours reading!'
"Dear Abby"
"What could be more fun than digging up interesting little nuggets about corpses?" Chicago Tribune
"A browser's delight; Forbes pulls off a new trick in making his choices...
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Fülszöveg
Ssss.
Here, for your entrancement and enlightenment, are the exits made by 175 people famous sometime during the past 3,000 years. From ancient Greece to yesterday's headlines, Malcolm Forbes reveals the secrets surrounding the sometimes ironic, sometimes amazing, sometimes touching, sometimes surprisingly appropriate, and sometimes hilarious demises of people we thought we knew everything about, including:
. -
Christopher Columbus MataHari Jim Morrison
Amelia Earhart Jimmy Hoffa Babe Ruth
"Mama" Cass Elliot Billie Holiday Sitting Bull
William Faulkner Buddy Holly Karl Wallenda
Sigmund Freud HueyLong Oscar Wilde
Hermann Goering Senator Joseph McCarthy and many more!
and famous died, reporting their last words and the family fights that followed. I was up until the wee hours reading!'
"Dear Abby"
"What could be more fun than digging up interesting little nuggets about corpses?" Chicago Tribune
"A browser's delight; Forbes pulls off a new trick in making his choices come to life by describing their deaths:' The Philadelphia Inquirer
Malcolm Forbes is the globe-trotting chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, collector, adventurer extraordinaire, bon vivant, a man who has single-handedly elevated having fun to an art form. His enjoyment of life
is legendary.
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