Fame At Last: Who Was Who According to The New York Times Obituaries

by John C. Ball, Jill Jonnes

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.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2000

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[Frederick Bingham · Rating 3 out of 5]

The authors did an analysis of the obituary pages of the New York Times between 1993 and 1999. The analyzed various aspects of the people who were written about during that time, how much education they had, how much money they made, what their occupation was, what their major accomplishments were. They discuss the decedents in various categories, Blacks, women, businessmen, academics, politicians, physicians, lawyers, criminals, etc. In each category they give a few examples of the types of people discussed and what they did.