Obituaries in American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Janice Hume
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-05 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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“Within the short period of a year, she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse,” reported The National Intelligencer on the death of
The Economist Book of Obituaries
Language: en
Pages: 422
Authors: Keith Colquhoun
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Bloomberg Press

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For 10 years, "The Economist" has included unique and original obituaries in a popular column. The selections are remarkable because of the people written about
Journalism in a Culture of Grief
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Carolyn Kitch
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-21 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book considers the cultural meanings of death in American journalism and the role of journalism in interpretations and enactments of public grief, which ha
This Republic of Suffering
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-06 - Publisher: Vintage

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil
Obituaries in American Culture
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Hume, Janice
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-05 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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What obituaries tell us about our culture, past and present, based upon a study of more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930