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More Bad Days in History: The Delightfully Dismal, Day-by-Day Saga of Ignominy, Idiocy, and Incompetence Continues
More Bad Days in History The Delightfully Dismal DaybyDay Saga of Ignominy Idiocy and Incompetence Continues
Author: Michael Farquhar, Giulia Ghigini (Illustrator)
In these gleefully gloomy pages, you'll find a politically smeared George Washington, a cranky Colonel Sanders, a homicidal Saint Olga of Kiev, a cuckolded Napoleon, a flame-censored Steinbeck, a treacherous Douglas MacArthur, a weeping Einstein, an exasperated Charles Dickens, a humiliated King Henry II, and a faux-contrite Ted Kennedy. And...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781426221460
ISBN-10: 1426221460
Publication Date: 11/3/2020
Pages: 448
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3.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: National Geographic
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 2
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Collection of goofs, faux pas, bad judgment calls, and catastrophes, dealt out one per day. Some of the subjects are prominent (Louis XVI, Julia Child, Richard Nixon), others more obscure. There's no unifying theme here, and Farquhar sometimes attempts to be too cutesy when dealing with death, disaster, and defeat.

There are some interesting tidbits here, but this is a book you want to dip into from time to time, not one to settle down with for an afternoon of reading.


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