Michael Stusser is a Seattle-based writer and game inventor. His "Accidental Parent" column (Parent Map Magazine) won the Gold Award from the Parenting Publications of America.
He is also a co-creator of the Doonesbury Game with Gary Trudeau (winner for "Best Party Game of the Year.
Published by the Penguin Group (London, America, et. al), " Dead Guy Interviews" is an entertaining conversations with 45 most accomplished, notorious, and deceased personalities in history.
Curiosity, creativity, fun and knowledge fuse in this fiction.
Imagine what dead people have to say:
1. CoCo Chanel
Poor and orphaned at the age of six, she worked as a seamstress until she could get enough money to open her own hat shop in 1909. Chanel worked till the end (passing away at 88), but The House of Chanel in Paris is still going strong (and run by iconic designer Karl Lagerfield).
2. Sir Winston Churchill
Churchill gained fame as a reporter during the Boer Wars and World War I, attracting a large audience with his top-notch writing and serving in the British regiments. Winston won a seat in the general election of 1900, the first victory in a political career that would last sixty-two years.
In 1953, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature.
3. Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII was the most famous of seven same-named queens and the last Pharoah of Egypt. Cunning (as well as beautiful) Cleopatra had a cobra hidden in a basket of figs delivered to her quarters. She died of a ritual snakebite at age thirty-nine and was buried beside Antony.
4. Confuscius was a great Chinese philosopher and teacher who created a system of beliefs based on personality morality, and the concept of a government that served its people. He focused on the Golden Rule: "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do unto others."
5. Crazy Horse (AKA "Tasunaka")
Chief of the "Oglala" Sioux tribe and the fiercest warrior the white man ever met. He taught the Lakota people the importance of their Native American tradition, and he fought to save their land and way of life.
In the introduction Michael says " Jesus has been too frequently misquoted." Next he adds about Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and names from the past resurrecting for a present interview.
Chapters vividly show how Stusser and a jouranalist's ability throw questions during work, and those dead people answering questions of all sorts.
Author adds "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." Moreover, comes an assurance that dead people will not be forgotten.
Rose Flores Martinez
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