Download or read book Dead Celebrities, Living Icons written by John David Ebert and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the epoch of the celebrity beginning in the 1930s with Howard Hughes and Walt Disney and continues to the present day with the life and death of Michael Jackson. Dead Celebrities, Living Icons documents the philosophical importance and significance of the contemporary cult of the celebrity and analyzes the tragic consequences of a human life lived in the glare of the media spotlight. --from publisher description.