Farewell, godspeed : the greatest eulogies of our times /
Farewell, godspeed : the greatest eulogies of our times / [print]
edited by Cyrus Copeland.
- first edition.
- New York : Harmony Books, (c)2003.
- xi, 320 pages ; 21 cm
Introduction -- Maestros -- Isadora Duncan Bob Fosse Keith Haring Jerome Robbins Gianni Versace Andy Warhol Visionaries -- Susan B Anthony Quentin Crisp Che Guevara Helen Keller Martin Luther King Karl Marx Eleanor Roosevelt Ryan White Malcolm X Wisecrackers -- Lucille Ball Jack Benny Stan Laurel Gilda Radner Charles Schulz Captains Of Industry -- Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford David Ogilvy John D Rockefeller Charles Tiffany Matinee Idols -- Humphrey Bogart Richard Burton Bette Davis James Dean Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau River Phoenix Mae West Explorers and High Fliers -- Challenger astronauts Amelia Earhart Thomas Edison Albert Einstein Carl Jung Timothy Leary Marshall McLuhan Tunesmiths and Troubadours -- Chet Atkins Irving Berlin Sammy Davis Jr Duke Ellington George Harrison Janis Joplin Laurence Welk Movie Moguls -- Stanley Kubrick Irving 'Swifty' Lazar David O Selznick Billy Wilder Darryl F Zanuck Wordsmiths -- Erma Bombeck Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Dashiell Hammett Lillian Hellman Thedoror Seuss Geisel Mark Twain Walt Whitman Virginia Woolf Camelot -- John F Kennedy John J Kennedy Jr Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Acknowledgments -- Credits and permissions. Max Eastman -- Neil Simon -- Kay Haring -- Mikhail Baryshnikov -- Madonna -- John Richardson -- Rev Anna Howard Shaw -- Louis Colaianni -- Fidel Castro -- Senator Lister Hill -- Benjamin E Mays -- Friedrich Engels -- Adlai Stevenson -- Rev Ray Probasco -- Ossie Davis -- Diane Sawyer -- Bob Hope -- Dick Van Dyke -- Alan Zweibel -- Cathy Guisewite -- John H Finley -- Edgar Guest -- Jock Elliott -- Dr Robert McCracken -- Annabel A Goan -- John Huston -- Emlyn Williams -- James Woods -- Rev Xen Harvey -- Larry Gelbart -- Charlie Matthau -- Bill Reichert -- Kevin Thomas -- President Ronald Reagan -- Muriel Morrissey -- J F Owens -- Ernst Straus -- Laurens van der Post -- Winona Ryder -- John Culkin -- Garrison Keillor -- Samuel Goldwyn Jr -- Gregory Hines -- Stanley Dance -- Eric Idle -- Ralph Gleason -- Shirley Welk Fredricks -- Jan Harlan -- Larry McMurtry -- Truman Capote -- Larry Gelbart -- Orson Welles -- Phil Donahue -- Susan Dickinson -- John F Kennedy -- Lillian Hellman -- William Styron -- Robert L Bernstein -- Rev Henry Van Dyke -- Robert Green Ingersoll -- Christopher Isherwood -- Chief Justice Earl Warren -- Senator Edward Kennedy -- Senator Edward Kennedy --
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.
9781400049462
2003008226
Eulogies.
Nonfiction.
CT105.C782.F374 2003 CT105
Introduction -- Maestros -- Isadora Duncan Bob Fosse Keith Haring Jerome Robbins Gianni Versace Andy Warhol Visionaries -- Susan B Anthony Quentin Crisp Che Guevara Helen Keller Martin Luther King Karl Marx Eleanor Roosevelt Ryan White Malcolm X Wisecrackers -- Lucille Ball Jack Benny Stan Laurel Gilda Radner Charles Schulz Captains Of Industry -- Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford David Ogilvy John D Rockefeller Charles Tiffany Matinee Idols -- Humphrey Bogart Richard Burton Bette Davis James Dean Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau River Phoenix Mae West Explorers and High Fliers -- Challenger astronauts Amelia Earhart Thomas Edison Albert Einstein Carl Jung Timothy Leary Marshall McLuhan Tunesmiths and Troubadours -- Chet Atkins Irving Berlin Sammy Davis Jr Duke Ellington George Harrison Janis Joplin Laurence Welk Movie Moguls -- Stanley Kubrick Irving 'Swifty' Lazar David O Selznick Billy Wilder Darryl F Zanuck Wordsmiths -- Erma Bombeck Emily Dickinson Robert Frost Dashiell Hammett Lillian Hellman Thedoror Seuss Geisel Mark Twain Walt Whitman Virginia Woolf Camelot -- John F Kennedy John J Kennedy Jr Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Acknowledgments -- Credits and permissions. Max Eastman -- Neil Simon -- Kay Haring -- Mikhail Baryshnikov -- Madonna -- John Richardson -- Rev Anna Howard Shaw -- Louis Colaianni -- Fidel Castro -- Senator Lister Hill -- Benjamin E Mays -- Friedrich Engels -- Adlai Stevenson -- Rev Ray Probasco -- Ossie Davis -- Diane Sawyer -- Bob Hope -- Dick Van Dyke -- Alan Zweibel -- Cathy Guisewite -- John H Finley -- Edgar Guest -- Jock Elliott -- Dr Robert McCracken -- Annabel A Goan -- John Huston -- Emlyn Williams -- James Woods -- Rev Xen Harvey -- Larry Gelbart -- Charlie Matthau -- Bill Reichert -- Kevin Thomas -- President Ronald Reagan -- Muriel Morrissey -- J F Owens -- Ernst Straus -- Laurens van der Post -- Winona Ryder -- John Culkin -- Garrison Keillor -- Samuel Goldwyn Jr -- Gregory Hines -- Stanley Dance -- Eric Idle -- Ralph Gleason -- Shirley Welk Fredricks -- Jan Harlan -- Larry McMurtry -- Truman Capote -- Larry Gelbart -- Orson Welles -- Phil Donahue -- Susan Dickinson -- John F Kennedy -- Lillian Hellman -- William Styron -- Robert L Bernstein -- Rev Henry Van Dyke -- Robert Green Ingersoll -- Christopher Isherwood -- Chief Justice Earl Warren -- Senator Edward Kennedy -- Senator Edward Kennedy --
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.
9781400049462
2003008226
Eulogies.
Nonfiction.
CT105.C782.F374 2003 CT105