Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving Audiobook (Free)

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched reserve that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.

Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global market leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the globe. But not every notable life has become the send-off it deserves. His mission to correct that wrong motivated Mobituaries, his #1 strike podcast. Now with Mobituaries, the publication, about Mobituaries: Great Lives Well worth Reliving he has gone much additional, with all new essays on artists, entertainers, sports superstars, political pioneers, founding fathers, and even more. Even if you know the brands, you’ve never realized why they matter…as yet.

Consider Herbert Hoover: before he was president, he was the “Great Humanitarian,” the man who preserved tens of millions from starvation. But after significantly less than a calendar year in the White House, the currency markets crashed, and all the good he previously done seemed to be overlooked. After that there’s Marlene Dietrich, well kept in mind as a display screen goddess, less remembered as an excellent patriot. Together with American servicemen on leading lines during World War II, she risked her life to help defeat the Nazis of her indigenous Germany. And how about Billy Carter and history’s unruly presidential brothers? Had been they ne’er-do-well liabilities…or magic formula weapons? Plus, Mobits for useless sports teams, inactive countries, the dearly departed place wagon, and dragons. Yes, dragons.

Rocca can be an expert researcher and storyteller. He pulls on these abilities here. Along with his dogged reporting and brand wit, Rocca provides these men and women back to life like no-one else can. Mobituaries is an insightful and unconventional account of the people who made life worth living for the rest of us, one which asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why.