Oops
twenty life lessons from the fiascos that shaped America : with handy recipes for disaster
1st ed.
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Contributions
- Kiger, Patrick J. - Contributor
Publication
2006 - Harper Collins, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
71,500 words, Guess
Page Count
286 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3427104M
- ISBN-100060780835
- OCLC Control Number61130861
- OCLC Control Numberoops20lifelesson0000smit_z0a2
- Library of Congress Control Number2005051199
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1172884
- Goodreads685437
Classifications
- DDC973
- LCCE179 .S653 2006
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 Enriched by handy clip-'n'-save "Recipes for Disaster" (Marinated Myopia, Cooked Goose, False-Alarm Chili), Oops proves that when it comes to failure, truth is stranger than fiction.
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Genres
- Miscellanea.
- Anecdotes.
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