How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous - Hardcover

Bragg, Georgia

 
9780802734891: How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0802734898 ISBN 13: 9780802734891
Verlag: Walker Childrens, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they could never escape them, no matter how brilliant their successes! Ferdinand Magellan is credited as the first man to sail around the world . . . but he only actually made it halfway. His terrible treatment of everyone he met cut his life journey short. Queen Isabella of Spain is remembered for financing Columbus's expeditions-and for creating the Spanish Inquisition. J. Bruce Ismay commissioned the unsinkable marvel of the sea, the Titanic-and then jumped the line of women and children to escape death on a lifeboat. Readers will be fascinated well past the final curtain and will empathize with the flawed humanity of these achievers.

Famous successful “failures” include:
Marco Polo • Queen Isabella of Spain • King Montezuma II • Anne Boleyn • Ferdinand Magellan • Isaac Newton • Benedict Arnold • George Armstrong Custer • Vincent Van Gogh • Susan B. Anthony • Thomas Alva Edison • J. Bruce Ismay • Amelia M. Earhart • Joseph Jefferson Jackson (“Shoeless Joe”)

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

GEORGIA BRAGG is the author of How They Croaked as well as Matisse on the Loose, a middle-grade novel. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and two cats.
www.georgiabragg.com

KEVIN O'MALLEY is the co-author and illustrator of the popular Miss Malarkey series, as well as the New York Times bestseller Gimme Cracked Corn and I Will Share and many other books for children. He lives in Maryland.
www.booksbyomalley.com

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Verlag
Walker Childrens
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802734898
ISBN 13 
9780802734891
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Zeichner
O'Malley Kevin
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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