The Dead Beat

"The paper comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead. Where else can you celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind sea monkeys, or the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? No wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and go directly to the obituary page."

Marilyn Johnson has been a staff writer for Life and an editor at Esquire, Redbook, and Outside

I Walk the Dead Beat	p. 1
A Wake of Obituarists	p. 13
Name That Bit	p. 29
The Mighty and the Fallen of New York	p. 43
The Irish Sports Page	p. 43
The Franchise	p. 47
Portraits of Grief	p. 57
GoodBye!	p. 69
Attention Must Be Paid	p. 73
Now You Know	p. 83
Ordinary Joe	p. 89
The Egalitarians	p. 115
Tributes	p. 129
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	p. 143
The Obituary Capital	p. 143
Boiled in Oil, and Other
Terrible Fates in the Daily Telegraph	p. 153
A Few Words About the Code	p. 160
Following the Guardian into the Mist	p. 166
An Independent Bent	p. 170
Lives of the Times	p. 178
Googling Death	p. 183
The Obit Writer's Obit	p. 205
Epilogue to the Paperback Edition	p. 225
Appendix	p. 233
Notes	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 249
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