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The Medical Lives of History`s Famous People highlights the effects of various diseases on the public lives of famous individuals in history. The contents of this book include chapters on the historical facts concerning Babe Ruth`s heroic battle with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, the oral cancer affecting Sigmund Freud, Celiac disease (the cause of president John F. Kennedy`s lifelong medical travails), porphyria (the condition afflicting King George), Hemophilia (the 'Royal disease') and much more. The Medical Lives of History`s Famous People is an interesting and valuable resource for general r

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Plutarch's Lives is a collection of lives of fifty-three famous Greeks and Romans. Each life consists of an account from birth to death as well as important events that happened during the person's lifetime. Plutarch, the author, draws on previous biographies of famous men, including those by Antiphon, Philip of Thespiae, and Phylarchus. He also uses material from his own life as well as historical events he has seen or heard about through others to tell the stories. Plutarch seeks in this work to give an interpretation that will be useful to all kinds of readers. He includes descriptions of character traits and moral flaws and virtues along with details on military victories or political struggles. His goal is for a person reading these accounts to come away with both admiration for great accomplishments but also a better understanding of what makes people great leaders and citizens. Plutarch was born in Boeotia and spent part of his youth in Rome. He was a priest of Apollo at Delphi and took on various political posts, but he always considered himself primarily a philosopher. He traveled an incredible amount, conversing with famous people and recording their lives and achievements. Only his essays and works about philosophy have survived into modern times; only seven volumes of his forty-eight historical works remain as well as the outlines for these 16 missing books. Volume One contains Plutarch's work on Agis, Kleomenes, Gracchus, Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Demosthenes, Cicero, Demosthenes, Antonius, Dion, Brutus, Artaxerxes, Aratus, Galba & Otho.

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A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable.Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel.Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.

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