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Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs,New
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From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.Eighty has been the new sixty for about twenty years now. In fact, there have always been lateinlife achievers, those who declined to go into decline just because they were eligible for social security. Journalist, humorist, and history buff Mo Rocca and coauthor Jonathan Greenberg introduce us to the people past and present who peaked when they could have been putteringbreaking out as writers, selling out concert halls, attempting to set landspeed recordsand in the case of one ninetyyear tortoise, becoming a firsttime father. (Take that, Al Pacino!)In the vein of Mobituaries, Roctogenarians is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titanssome long gone (a cancerstricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cutouts when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Mel Brooks, yukking it up at close to one hundred). The amazing cast of characters also includes Mary Church Terrell, who at eightysix helped lead sitins at segregated Washington, DC, lunch counters in the 1950s, and Carol Channing, who married the love of her life at eightytwo. Then theres Peter Mark Roget, who began working on his thesaurus in his twenties and completed it at seventythree (because sometimes finding the right word takes time.)With passion and wonder Rocca and Greenberg recount the stories of yesterdays and todays strongest finishers. Because with all due respect to the Golden Girls, some people will never be content sitting out on the lanai. (PS Actress Estelle Getty was sixtytwo when she got her big break. And yes, shes in the book.)
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