A Book of Ages: An Eccentric Miscellany of Great and Offbeat Moments in the Lives of the Famous and Infamous, Ages 1 to 100 | 
 enlarge | Author: Eric Hanson
Publisher: Harmony
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 18821
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1.3
ISBN: 0307408949
Dewey Decimal Number: 920.02
EAN: 9780307408945
ASIN: 0307408949
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
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Product Description
AGE ISN’T JUST A NUMBER—IT’S A WAY OF KEEPING SCORE.
THIS IS YOUR SCORECARD.
The day we turn any age, we become contemporaries of everyone who has ever been that age, and it becomes our business to know that Bob Dylan wrote “Blowin’ in the Wind” when he was twenty, Orson Welles cowrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane when he was twenty-five, Winston Churchill was fired from the Admiralty when he was forty and took up painting, and Jane Austen died, unmarried and mostly unknown, when she was forty-one. Knowing who did what when provides the yardstick by which to measure our own progress; it’s comforting to learn that Grandma Moses didn’t show her first painting until she was seventy-eight, and discouraging (but not surprising) to discover that Einstein was already smarter than you at age sixteen.
A witty, ironic collection of moments from famous lives organized by year of age from infancy to death, A Book of Ages tells you who is doing what, who is on top of the world, who is waiting for his luck to change, who is saying unkind things about whom, who is planning his revenge, who is meeting for the first time, and who Elizabeth Taylor is currently divorcing.
WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO?
An Eccentric Miscellany of Achievements,Misdeeds, Crossed Paths, Bypaths, Inventions, Scandals, Child Prodigies, Late Masterpieces, Marriages and Breakups, Feuds, Dead Ends, Second Chances, Adventures and Misadventures, Novels Written and Battles Won and Lost, All Organized by Year of Age.
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FANTASTIC November 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I picked this book up and read it whenever I had a free moment. It's a fascinating collection of anecdotes about a varied and large group of famous people. Anyone should read this if they want a perspective on their own life and age, an interesting fact to share or know, or a gift for anyone they know. Buy the book, it's one of few books I look through again and again.
humorous, reflective, informative, chock full of biographical tidbits October 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Eric Hanson strings together bits and chunks of personal stories and history through the lives of writers, artists, politicians and others in our milieu. If you wonder about where are on on the path of life compared to others, if you love biographies but don't have time to read a full book... if you want to be entertained and learn something, buy this. You can pick it up and read it for 2 minutes, or read it cover to cover. "A Book of Ages" is a great gift!
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