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Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing
Bill Fawcett
其他書名
100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today
出版
Penguin
, 2012-12-04
主題
History / Essays
Political Science / History & Theory
Humor / Topic / Politics
ISBN
1101613521
9781101613528
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e6tVsSHyLbAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Hindsight hurts.
* The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense—which instead starts a revolution.
* In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself…and the Great Depression gets greater.
* Nixon tapes everything he says in the Oval Office, believing it will all be of great historical value. He turns out to be right when those same tapes cost him his presidency.
* Charles the First cuts a deal with the Irish to fight Parliament that instead loses him public support—and later his head.
Along with
100 Mistakes that Changed the World
,
Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing
proves once again that when global leaders drop the ball, the whole world shakes. With a hundred more bombshell blunders—from Pickett’s Charge to the Lewinski scandal—this compendium takes a fascinating look at some of history’s greatest turns for the worse.