Mobituaries - Mo Rocca Audiobook

Written by Mo Rocca
Read by Mo Rocca
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, popular TV humorist and writer Mo Rocca, a charmingly irreverent, entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who who have long fascinated him, and made life worth living.

Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of world leaders, captains of industry, innovators and artists. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. With Mobituaries - the book companion to the CBS podcast of the same name - the journalist, humorist, and history buff is righting that wrong, profiling the people who have long fascinated him - from the 20th century’s greatest entertainer…to sitcom characters gone all too soon…to a shamefully forgotten Founding Father. Even if you know the names, you’ve never understood why they matter…until now.

In this audiobook, Rocca chronicles the stories of the people who made a difference but whose lives - for some reason or another - were never truly examined. Take Herbert Hoover: Before he was president, he was the “Great Humanitarian”, the man who saved tens of millions from starvation. But after less than a year in the White House, the stock market crashed, and all the good he had done seemed to be forgotten. Then, there’s Marlene Dietrich, well remembered as a screen goddess, less remembered as a great patriot. Alongside American servicemen on the front lines during World War II, she risked her life to help defeat the Nazis of her native Germany. There’s Thomas Paine, whose Common Sense lit the fuse for the American Revolution - and whose paltry obit summed up his life thusly: ‘He had lived long, did some good, and much harm.’

And then there’s screen icon Audrey Hepburn. She remains a household name, but how much do we know about her wartime upbringing and how it shaped the woman we fell in love with? And what about Billy Carter and history’s unruly presidential brothers? Were they ne’er-do-well liabilities…or secret weapons?
And what about Billy Carter and history’s unruly presidential brothers? Were they ne’er-do-well liabilities…or secret weapons? Plus, Mobits for dead sports teams, dead countries, the dearly departed station wagon, and dragons. Yes, dragons.

As a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning and the host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, Rocca is an expert researcher and storyteller. He draws on these skills here. With his rigorous reporting and trademark wit, Rocca brings these men and women splendidly 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 that asks us to think about who gets remembered, and why.