2006 Reading List - You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters
Book Thirty-one
You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters - by Bill Fawcett and Brian Thompsen
Ahhh... a nice palate-cleanser.
This is a fun book, even though it's not really new. It plots some of the great errors in history, from the Trojan Horse to New Coke, occasionally meditating on the effects of those errors. For example, was the Russian Revolution given an assist by a young Winston Churchill? Was No, No, Nannette really worth 86 years to the Red Sox? And why on Earth didn't Nixon burn the tapes?
The chapters are short, and most of the stories are familiar, from William Harrison's rejection of a topcoat to the careless captaining of the Titanic.
Enjoy....
You Did What? Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters - by Bill Fawcett and Brian Thompsen
Ahhh... a nice palate-cleanser.
This is a fun book, even though it's not really new. It plots some of the great errors in history, from the Trojan Horse to New Coke, occasionally meditating on the effects of those errors. For example, was the Russian Revolution given an assist by a young Winston Churchill? Was No, No, Nannette really worth 86 years to the Red Sox? And why on Earth didn't Nixon burn the tapes?
The chapters are short, and most of the stories are familiar, from William Harrison's rejection of a topcoat to the careless captaining of the Titanic.
Enjoy....