Oops: 20 Life Lessons from the Fiascoes That Shaped America Book

Oops may be the only American cultural history to ever include flaming elephants, government-funded psychics, and a cutting-edge cinematic technology known as "Smell-O-Vision." This chronicle of often overlooked snafus will delight fans of popular culture who appreciate that Americans' failures are as spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash; sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; even failures that failed to happen!Veteran journalists Smith and Kiger select twenty miscues, goofs, complications, and failures that shaped modern America and reveal the life lessons these gaffes teach, including:Accentuate the Positive: How Thomas Edison Invented Trash TalkUnderstand the Market: The 1967 Monkees-Jimi Hendrix Concert TourDesperation Is the Cradle of Bad Ideas: Cleveland Indians' Ten-Cent Beer NightSweat the Details: The Sixty-Story John Hancock GuillotineEnriched by handy clip-'n'-save "Recipes for Disaster" (Marinated Myopia, Cooked Goose, False-Alarm Chili), Oops proves that when it comes to failure, truth is stranger than fiction.Read More