From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched publication that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him.

Mo Rocca has generally loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global market leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the globe. But not every significant life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His pursuit to right that wrong motivated Mobituaries, his #1 hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries, the reserve, about Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving he has gone much further, with new essays on artists, entertainers, sports celebrities, political pioneers, founding fathers, and even more. Even if you know the brands, you’ve never grasped why they matter…as yet.

Consider Herbert Hoover: before he was leader, he was the “Great Humanitarian,” the person who kept tens of millions from starvation. But after significantly less than a season in the Light House, the stock market crashed, and all the good he previously done seemed to be ignored. After that there’s Marlene Dietrich, well appreciated as a display screen goddess, less remembered as a great patriot. Together with American servicemen on leading lines during World Battle II, she risked her existence to help defeat the Nazis of her indigenous Germany. And what about Billy Carter and history’s unruly presidential brothers? Were they ne’er-do-well liabilities…or top secret weapons? Plus, Mobits for useless sports teams, inactive countries, the dearly departed station wagon, and dragons. Yes, dragons.

Rocca can be an professional researcher and storyteller. He draws on these abilities here. Along with his dogged confirming and brand wit, Rocca brings these men and women to life like no-one else can. Mobituaries can be an insightful and unconventional accounts of the people who made life well worth living for ordinary people, one that asks us to think about who gets kept in mind, and why.