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Highlights the lives of America's most important achievers including scientists, lawyers, doctors, actors, and politicians, and uses the database created from obituaries from the "New York Times" to answer questions about society.
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Draws on a database that includes every New York Times obituary from the past six years to consider success, fame, and accomplishment in America. Colorful stories of America's most important and most fascinating achievers in law, medicine, crime, politics, finance, and entertainment reveal much about success and change in the high-status world. Ball has been a medical professor and a research scientist. Jonnes is a writer and historian. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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