How they choked
Subtitle: failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous
By: Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley
Contributors: O'Malley, Kevin, illustrator
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780545776776
Subjects: Errors, inventions; Conduct of life; Juvenile literature; Celebrities; Decision making; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Marco Polo: staying alive (1254-1324); title: Queen Isabella of Spain: omg (1451-1504); title: King Montezuma II: oops, there go the Aztecs (1466-1520); title: Ferdinand Magellan: dead in the water; title: Anne Boleyn: fatal attractions (1501-1536); title: Isaac Newton: the law's in town (1642-1727); title: Benedict Arnold: stinker, traitor, soldier, spy (1741-1801); title: Susan B. Anthony: she had a dream (1820-1906); title: George Armstrong Custer: dressed to kill (1839-1876); title: Thomas Alva Edison: shocking inventor (1847-1931); title: Vincent Van Gogh: least likely to succeed (1853-1890); title: J. Bruce Ismay: first-class coward (1862-1937); title: Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe"): game over (1887-1951); title: Amelia M. Earhart: winging it (1897-1937).