Released on = April 1, 2007, 10:36 am

Press Release Author = Jack Adler/Pearlsong Press

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Press Release Summary = Inspiration book about famous seniors provides profiles of
52 famous seniors who have defied age-related problems to make valuable
achievements.

Press Release Body = NASHVILLE - "Splendid Seniors: Great Lives/Great Deeds" by
Jack Adler has been published by Nashville-based Pearlsong Press. The inspirational
218-page paperback captures the triumphs and vicissitudes of 52 men and women
throughout the ages who withstood the disabilities and vicissitudes of age to
continue to contribute to society well past their 65th birthday.
Personalities from the distant past whose lives and achievements are depicted
include Sophocles, Michelangelo and Galileo. Latter-figures take in Ignace
Paderewski, Louis Pasteur, Alexander Graham Bell, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard
Shaw, Andrew Carnegie, etc. Great political leaders include Mahatma Gandhi, Winston
Churchill, Charles DeGaulle, and David Ben-Gurion.
Enriching the annals of American history, and covering various fields, are such
remarkable personalities as Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Luther
Burbank, Robert Frost, John Muir, Thurgood Marshall, and Casey Stengel. Leaders in
the world of art feature Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinski, Charles Chaplin, W.
Somerset Maugham, Le Corbusier, Thomas Mann, etc. Distaff personalities include
Susan Anthony, Mary Baker Eddy, Sarah Bernhardt, Margaret Mead, Eleanor Roosevelt,
and Mother Teresa.
Quotes from each personality enhance the mini-profiles.
Adler is also the author of several other nonfiction books and a recent trilogy of
historical novels, Parthian Retreat, Seres Sanctuary, and Parthian Karma.
Pearlsong Press, founded by Peggy Elam, Ph. D, a psychologist and journalist,
specializes in books that entertain while expanding perspectives on the self and
the world.
For more information on "Splendid Seniors: Great Lives/Great Deeds," priced at
$18.95, contact Pearlsong Press, P.O. Box 58065, Nashville, TN 37205. Phone:
615-356-5188; web site: www.pearlsong.com.
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Contact Details = . Jack Adler, 6122 Shadyglade Avenue
North Hollywood, CA 91606
jadler@prodigy.net
. Peggy Elam: p_elam@bellsouth.net