the decline and fall of practically everybody by will cuppy

As published, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody includes chapters devoted to all the famous men and women of history Cuppy wanted to include. At his death, he was well on his way toward finishing it. Cuppy often complained that people kept asking him, 'Don't you ever write anything but little pieces about animals?' Here is the answer all the time this was really the book he was most concerned about. The first of these animal books, How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, appeared in 1931 and set the pattern for the others that followed. During most of that time, of course, he was busy with other projects – a weekly column of reviews of mystery books for the New York Herald Tribune, pieces for various magazines, and a series of books on birds, mammals, reptiles, and fish. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY INTRODUCTION WHEN Will Cuppy died, in September, 1949, he had been working on this book, off and on, for sixteen years. HENRY VIII ELIZABETH GEORGE III PART VI: NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE LEIF THE LUCKY CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS MONTEZUMA CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH MILES STANDISH PART VII: THEY ALL HAD THEIR FUN SOME ROYAL PRANKS SOME ROYAL STOMACHS AFTERWORD by Thomas Maeder (1984) The Decline and Fall of Practically EverybodyĬONTENTS INTRODUCTION by the Editor PART I: IT SEEMS THERE WERE TWO EGYPTIANS CHEOPS, OR KHUFU HATSHEPSUT PART II: ANCIENT GREEKS AND WORSE PERICLES ALEXANDER THE GREAT HANNIBAL CLEOPATRA NERO PART III: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS ATTILA THE HUN CHARLEMAGNE LADY GODIVA LUCREZIA BORGIA PHILIP THE SAP PART IV: A FEW GREATS LOUIS XIV MADAME DU BARRY PETER THE GREAT CATHERINE THE GREAT FREDERICK THE GREAT PART V: MERRIE ENGLAND WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR

The decline and fall of practically everybody by will cuppy