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

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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 and 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 and 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.

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.