Gotham Graves Volume 2: Famous Graves Found Around New York City

From the publisher - The Joes ventured to the Big Apple and its boroughs to visit the graves of the rich, famous, and infamous. This second volume of the Gotham Graves series focuses on those persons interred in and around New York City who were interesting figures in their times. Farrell and Farley have combed New York City to bring you the most entertaining biographies about interesting people buried in New York. Included in this volume:

"Gentleman Jim" Corbett Andrew Carnegie Irving Berlin Lou Gehrig Bill Robinson Dorothy Day E G Marshall Gil Hodges Harry Chapin Malcolm X Mary Mallon George and Ira Gershwin The New York Mob Triangle Shirt Factory Fire "Boss" Tweed Andy Kaufman Dorothy Kilgallen Miles Davis Steven McDonald Jimmy Walker Roy Cohn Ruffian

I received an Advance Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this book. I am a trivia and social-history fanatic so this was right up my alley - in fact while reading it I went and bought a copy of volume one to add to my ever-increasing reading pile of joy :-)

The stories of the famous peoples' lives were incredibly insightful and interesting - the story of Irving Berlin's marriage made me realize that life is short but you need to live it to the fullest!!! Is it kind of morbid? well, yes ... but it is not like each and every one of us is not going to die someday --- we need to leave a life behind worth writing about.!!!