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Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today

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Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today

Hindsight hurts.

* The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defenseâ€”which instead starts a revolution.
* In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itselfâ€¦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 supportâ€”and later his head.

Along with 100 Mistakes that Changed the World, Trust Me, IÂ Know What I'm Doing proves once again that when global leaders drop the ball, the whole world shakes. With a hundred more bombshell blundersâ€”from Pickettâ€™s Charge to the Lewinski scandalâ€”this compendium takes a fascinating look at some of historyâ€™s greatest turns for the worse.

Country	USA
Author	Bill Fawcett
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780425257364
ISBN	0425257363
Label	Berkley
Manufacturer	Berkley
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	400
PublicationDate	2013-07-24
Publisher	Berkley
ReleaseDate	2012-12-04
Studio	Berkley

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