A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael Farquhar

This was Farquhar's fifth book in a series of humorous historical outlooks. whose piddling misfortunes and regrets will snap neatly into perspective when set against record of idiocy and disaster. A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans is a compilation of biographies by Michael Farquhar. 'Bad Days in History may offer consolation to the great mass of quotidian belly-achers.

Farquhar (A Treasury of Royal Scandals A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten American, etc.). Each less-than-red-letter day of the year is recounted in Farquhar's wry voice and comes with the enduring lesson The Wall Street Journal found in the first volume of this series: There is no end to American fascination with British royalty.

And that's just in July!įrom the decadent palaces of ancient Rome to the modern Halls of Congress, this illuminating (sometimes disturbing) narrative features an almost endless array of misbehavior, amusing mishaps, and breathtaking misfortune over the ages and across the historical spectrum. Here you will find a politically smeared George Washington, a cranky Colonel Sanders, a homicidal Saint Olga of Kiev, a cuckolded Napoleon, a flame-censored Steinbeck, a treacherous Douglas MacArthur, a weeping Einstein, an exasperated Charles Dickens, a humiliated King Henry II, and a faux-contrite Ted Kennedy. A writer and editor at The Washington Post specializing in history, he is coauthor of The Century: History as It Happened on the Front Page. In this delightful sequel to his sleeper hit Bad Days in History, best-selling author Michael Farquhar delivers another eye-popping collection of unhappy days starring some of history's most famous, infamous and, unfortunate personalities caught up in a rich assortment of wretched episodes.

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans by Michael Farquhar