Mobituaries is the kind of book that can be slurped up all at once, or ingested more leisurely. Mo Rocca is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, frequent panelist for the NPR quiz show game Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!, past correspondent for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and much more. He and Jonathan Greenberg have brought the podcast series Mobituaries to us in book format. I have not listened to any of the podcasts, but now I need to put them on my "to-hear" list.Rocca brings his interests in geography, presidents, and history together to entertain the reader with less-known information about people who were famous, along with information about people who should have been famous. Sometimes the Mobits are not about people at all (e.g., see the chapter about medieval sciences). The subjects are handled with both heart and humor. I highly recommend this well-researched, entertaining book .
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