(Ebook) The Worst Blunders of All Time: Shocking Tales from Pandora's Box to Putin's Invasion by David P. Barash ISBN 9781510776357, 1510776354, 30681906

(Ebook) The Worst Blunders of All Time: Shocking Tales from Pandora's Box to Putin's Invasion by David P. Barash ISBN 9781510776357, 1510776354, 30681906

Travel through history & around the world to learn about the greatest mistakes, blunders, & bloopers of all time! Everyone makes mistakes & nearly everyone likes to know about them, especially when made by someone else! The Worst Blunders of All Time: Shocking Tales from Pandora's Box to Putin's Invasion presents some of our most notable blunders, from the silly to the consequential, from ancient history to current events. It offers the pleasure of Schadenfreude & of an easy-going reading experience, as well as—here and there—some learning opportunities. The reader will see when relatively big things have gone wrong and couldn’t be called back, such as iconic, mythical blunders like Pandora opening that troublesome box & Eve taking her ill-advised bite, to great historical oops such as Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812, as well as some less monumental ... mistakes, such as the “Curse of the Bambino,” when the Boston Red Sox sold Babe Ruth—at the time, a pitcher—to the New York Yankees... David P. Barash will take readers from the tragic to the whimsical, with the latter represented by, for example, “Wrong Way Corrigan,” an early 20th century aviator who thought he was flying nonstop from New York to California, but, confused by a heavy fog, ended up in Ireland. Pointing out these & other mistakes will be an exercise in Monday morning quarterbacking & 20-20 hindsight. Thus, The Worst Blunders of All Time shall “backstrapolate”: looking in the rear-view mirror at mistakes made by others. The Worst Blunders of All Time is ... an easy & accessible read, especially useful as therapy in these difficult times. However, its nonetheless accurate & informative, giving rise to some potentially useful take-home messages, keyed to its material. Ideally, we should all benefit from our own mistakes, making lemonade out of lemons, while also following Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice: “Learn from the mistakes of others. You cannot live long enough