(11-02-2016) Ponder how many obituaries have appeared in the New York Times since 1851, and how those obits reflect cultural, social and political history.
Wednesday’s Topical Currents is with Obituary Editor, William McDonald, and his remarkable book of “obits,” called The New York Times Book of the Dead.
What was written, for example, about Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie or Coco Chanel?