The interviewees in this irreverent book may not have a pulse, but, boy, can they talk!

Ever wanted to ask Nostradamus for the winning lotto numbers or van Gogh about the whole ear episode? How about Napoleon about his complex, or if Frida might consider a brow wax? In The Dead Guy Interviews , journalist Michael Stusser has created forty- five interviews with some of the most famous personalities of all time, asking them probing questions about their lives, accomplishments, and what's on their iPods. Based on his column in the acclaimed magazine mental_floss , this collection of conversations is incredibly funny, but each interview is also based on serious research, so in addition to laughing, readers actually learn real history.

The Dead Guy Interviews includes discussions with:

Alexander the Great

Beethoven

Napoléon Bonaparte

Buddha

Julius Caesar

Caligula

George Washington

Carver

Catherine the Great

Winston Churchill

Cleopatra

Confucius

Crazy Horse

Salvador Dalí

Charles Darwin

Emily Dickinson

Albert Einstein

Benjamin Franklin

Sigmund Freud

Genghis Khan

Vincent van Gogh

Henry VIII

J. Edgar Hoover

Harry Houdini

Thomas Jefferson

Joan of Arc

Robert Johnson

Frida Kahlo

Leonardo da Vinci

Abraham Lincoln

Mao Tse-tung

Karl Marx

Michelangelo

Montezuma

Mozart

Nostradamus

Edgar Allan Poe

William Shakespeare

Sun Tzu

Mae West

Oscar Wilde