title: The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People
author: William McDonald
description: A black-and-white volume that captures the essence of The New York Times obituary: superbly researched pieces of history that retain the immediacy of it-just-happened...A must for the history enthusiast.<b><i><i>The Seattle Times</i><br /></i></b>
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  Copyright © 2015 Andy McDermott
  
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  First published as an Ebook by Headline Publishing Group in 2015
  
  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
  persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
  
  Ebook conversion by Avon DataSet Ltd, Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire
  
  eISBN: 978 0 7553 8079 4
  
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