The American Way Of Death Revisited
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The American Way Of Death Revisited
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Author : Jessica Mitford
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-23
The American Way Of Death Revisited written by Jessica Mitford and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-23 with Social Science categories.
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
The American Way Of Death
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Author : JESSICA MITFORD
language : en
Publisher:
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Summary Of Jessica Mitford S The American Way Of Death Revisited
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Jessica Mitford S The American Way Of Death Revisited written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13T22:59:00Z with Social Science categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The funeral industry is a sales industry, and the funeral directors are the salesmen. They long to be liked and understood, and they want to be worthy of high regard. They are preying on the grief, remorse, and guilt of survivors, or they are trained professionals with high ethical standards. #2 The funeral industry is suffering from a lack of image and identity. To solve this, Dakota Tom recommends that funeral directors and suppliers produce fifteen- to thirty-second commercials which affirms the personality of the industry. #3 The American Way of Death was a best-seller, and funeral service went on a diet from which it never recovered. Enoch Glascock, who had worked in mortuary school, explained that funeral homes should do something positive about themselves. #4 There are many ways to gain name recognition and patronage. One method is to give turkeys at Thanksgiving and Christmas to deserving families, which allows everyone to participate.
Decca
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Author : Jessica Mitford
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2010-05-19
Decca written by Jessica Mitford and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-19 with Literary Collections categories.
“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist (her funeral-industry exposé, The American Way of Death, became an instant classic). She was a celebrated wit, a charmer, and throughout her life a prolific and passionate writer of letters—now gathered here. Decca’s correspondence crackles with irreverent humor and mischief, and with acute insight into human behavior (and misbehavior) that attests to her generous experience of the worlds of politics, the arts, journalism, publishing, and high and low society. Here is correspondence with everyone from Katharine Graham and George Jackson, Betty Friedan, Miss Manners, Julie Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harry Truman, and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Decca’s sisters the Duchess of Devonshire and the novelist Nancy Mitford, her parents, her husbands, her children, and her grandchildren. In a profile of J.K. Rowling, The Daily Telegraph (UK), said, “Her favorite drink is gin and tonic, her least favorite food, trip. Her heroine is Jessica Mitford.”
Funeral Customs
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Author : Bertram S. Puckle
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Funeral Customs written by Bertram S. Puckle and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1926, Bertram S. Puckle's “Funeral Customs” is a comprehensive account of traditional funerary traditions and customs throughout history and from all over the world. From lost ancient practices to the first graveyards and cemeteries, this volume sheds light on how we as humans have dealt with death and the dead over the ages. Contents include: “The Provisions Of Nature”, “Death Warnings—When Does Death Take Place?”, “Preparation For Burial, Coffins, 'Grave-Goods', Suttee”, “Wakes, Mutes, Wailers, Sin-Eating, Totemism, Death-Taxes”, “Bells, Mourning”, “Funeral Feasts And Processions”, “Early Burial-Places”, “Churchyards, Cemeteries, Orientation and Other Burial Customs”, etc.
The American Way Of Birth
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Author : Jessica Mitford
language : en
Publisher: Plume Books
Release Date : 1993
The American Way Of Birth written by Jessica Mitford and has been published by Plume Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Health & Fitness categories.
Traces the history of childbirth in America and assesses the conventional and alternative methods of childbirth, commenting on the state of American childbirth and health care. By the author of The American Way of Death. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked
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Author : Robert Webster
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-05-01
Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked written by Robert Webster and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-01 with Social Science categories.
Why would someone want to hang out with dead bodies? With curious anecdotes and unbelievable truth, funeral director Robert Webster reveals that answer and more, offering readers entertaining and quirky stories gleaned from a life lived around death. Webster tackles those embarrassing questions we all have about what really goes on bhind the scenes when you've left this world: Strange things people put in caskets The biggest rip-offs in the business The crazy things that happen to a body after death Lime, waz, and other ways to hide the truth The most important thing an undertaker does How to avoid the high-pressure funeral parlor What that's not a coffin the body is resting in
The Right Way Of Death Restoring The American Funeral Business To Its True Calling
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Author : Eric Layer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-21
The Right Way Of Death Restoring The American Funeral Business To Its True Calling written by Eric Layer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-21 with Business & Economics categories.
Funeral service is dying. Cremation rates are sky-high, new competitors pop up every day, and an entire generation of funeral home owners are considering closing shop. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening death care and everything mortuary owners need to know about how to save it.
Repairing The American Metropolis
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Author : Douglas S. Kelbaugh
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-07-16
Repairing The American Metropolis written by Douglas S. Kelbaugh and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-16 with Architecture categories.
Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh’s Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, first published in 1997. It is more timely and significant than ever, with new text, charts, and images on architecture, sprawl, and New Urbanism, a movement that he helped pioneer. Theory and policies have been revised, refined, updated, and developed as compelling ways to plan and design the built environment. This is an indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architecture and urban planning students and scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
The Denial Of Death
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Author : Ernest Becker
language : en
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Release Date : 2011-03-01
The Denial Of Death written by Ernest Becker and has been published by Souvenir Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Self-Help categories.
'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the 'why' of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie - man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. The book argues that human civilisation is a defence against the knowledge that we are mortal beings. Becker states that humans live in both the physical world and a symbolic world of meaning, which is where our 'immortality project' resides. We create in order to become immortal - to become part of something we believe will last forever. In this way we hope to give our lives meaning. In The Denial of Death, Becker sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates decades after it was written.