How they choked failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous

How they choked

failures flops and flaws of the awfully famous

How they choked

failures flops and flaws of the awfully famous
Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
Book - 2014

Presents a humorous look at the flaws and foibles of some of the most famous personalities of history, including such figures as Marco Polo, George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Edison, and Amelia Earhart.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bragg, Georgia
Other Authors: O'Malley, Kevin, 1961- (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury, [2014]
Subjects:
History > Errors, inventions, etc. > Juvenile literature.
Celebrities > Conduct of life > Juvenile literature.
Decision making > Juvenile literature.

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505 0 |a Marco Polo: staying alive (1254-1324) -- Queen Isabella of Spain: omg (1451-1504) -- King Montezuma II: oops, there go the Aztecs (1466-1520) -- Ferdinand Magellan: dead in the water -- Anne Boleyn: fatal attractions (1501-1536) -- Isaac Newton: the law's in town (1642-1727) -- Benedict Arnold: stinker, traitor, soldier, spy (1741-1801) -- Susan B. Anthony: she had a dream (1820-1906) -- George Armstrong Custer: dressed to kill (1839-1876) -- Thomas Alva Edison: shocking inventor (1847-1931) -- Vincent Van Gogh: least likely to succeed (1853-1890) -- J. Bruce Ismay: first-class coward (1862-1937) -- Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe"): game over (1887-1951) -- Amelia M. Earhart: winging it (1897-1937). 
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