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File Format | PDF
File Size | 3.13 MB
Pages | 304
Language | English
Category | Self Help
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Description: Oops may be the
only American cultural history to ever include flaming elephants,
government-funded psychics, and a cutting-edge cinematic technology known as
"Smell-O-Vision." This chronicle of often overlooked snafus will
delight fans of popular culture who appreciate that Americans' failures are as
spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash;
sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; even
failures that failed to happen!
Veteran
journalists Smith and Kiger select twenty miscues, goofs, complications, and
failures that shaped modern America and reveal the life lessons these gaffes
teach, including:
Accentuate the
Positive: How Thomas Edison Invented Trash Talk
Understand the
Market: The 1967 Monkees–Jimi Hendrix Concert Tour
Desperation Is
the Cradle of Bad Ideas: Cleveland Indians' Ten-Cent Beer Night
Sweat the
Details: The Sixty-Story John Hancock Guillotine
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Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America
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