The Obituary Book
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to have lived a life worth remembering? The Obituary Book by Alden Whitman — the celebrated Chief Obituary Writer of The New York Times — presents a masterful collection of elegies for some of the twentieth century's most towering figures, chronicling the lives of statesmen, artists, scientists, and visionaries with a depth and humanity rarely found in journalistic writing. Each portrait uncovers the private person behind the public legend, drawing on Whitman's renowned practice of interviewing his subjects before their deaths, lending these tributes an extraordinary intimacy and authority. Whitman's prose is precise yet deeply humane, balancing the gravitas of historical record with the warmth of personal recollection — a style that earned him the reputation as the finest obituarist of his era. The Obituary Book stands as both a cultural document and a meditation on legacy, ambition, and the passage of greatness, leaving the reader to quietly wonder: when the final word is written, what will remain?
Author: Alden Whitman
Format: Hardback
Published: 1971, Michael Joseph
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
What does it mean to have lived a life worth remembering? The Obituary Book by Alden Whitman — the celebrated Chief Obituary Writer of The New York Times — presents a masterful collection of elegies for some of the twentieth century's most towering figures, chronicling the lives of statesmen, artists, scientists, and visionaries with a depth and humanity rarely found in journalistic writing. Each portrait uncovers the private person behind the public legend, drawing on Whitman's renowned practice of interviewing his subjects before their deaths, lending these tributes an extraordinary intimacy and authority. Whitman's prose is precise yet deeply humane, balancing the gravitas of historical record with the warmth of personal recollection — a style that earned him the reputation as the finest obituarist of his era. The Obituary Book stands as both a cultural document and a meditation on legacy, ambition, and the passage of greatness, leaving the reader to quietly wonder: when the final word is written, what will remain?