50 people who screwed up Scotland
By: Allan Brown
Publisher: Constable
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781472119629
Subjects: Biography; Humor; History
Other titles: Fifty people who screwed up Scotland
Description: "To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in. Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They're all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors. 50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Originally published: 2014.
Table of contents: title: Stuart Adamson; title: Wendy Alexander; title: The Bay City Rollers; title: Alexander Graham Bell; title: Bonnie Prince Charlie; title: Jimmy Boyle; title: Dan Brown; title: Robert Burns; title: John Calvin; title: Billy Connolly; title: Sir Sean Connery; title: Alan Cumming; title: Tam Cowan; title: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Reginald Eastwood; title: Winnie Ewing; title: Donnchadh MacFhearghais; title: George Galloway; title: Ricky Gervais; title: Mel Gibson; title: Colin Gilbert; title: Sir Fred Goodwin; title: Dr Samuel Johnson; title: Eric Joyce; title: James Kelman; title: R.D. Laing; title: Sir Harry Lauder; title: Neil Lennon; title: John Leslie; title: Sir John Lockhart-Ross; title: Lulu; title: Gordon Matheson; title: Kenny MacAskill; title: Ally MacLeod; title: Frank McAveety; title: Hugh MacDiarmid; title: William McIllvanney; title: Charles Rennie Mackintosh; title: Colin Montgomerie; title: Andy Murray; title: Nick Nairn; title: Gordon Ramsay; title: Lord Reith; title: J.K. Rowling; title: Alex Salmond; title: Frank Searle; title: Tommy Sheridan; title: Jack Vettriano; title: And never brought to mind.