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How they choked

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An edition of How they choked (2014)

How they choked

failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous

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  • 2 Want to read

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.

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Scholastic Press
Language
English
Pages
200

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Subjects

Errors, inventions, Conduct of life, Juvenile literature, Celebrities, Decision making, History, History, miscellanea, History, juvenile literature

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Cover of: How They Choked
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
in English
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Cover of: How They Choked
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
Jun 07, 2016, Bloomsbury USA Childrens
paperback
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Cover of: How they choked
How they choked: failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous
2014, Scholastic Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

Marco Polo: staying alive (1254-1324)
Queen Isabella of Spain: omg (1451-1504)
King Montezuma II: oops, there go the Aztecs (1466-1520)
Ferdinand Magellan: dead in the water
Anne Boleyn: fatal attractions (1501-1536)
Isaac Newton: the law's in town (1642-1727)
Benedict Arnold: stinker, traitor, soldier, spy (1741-1801)
Susan B. Anthony: she had a dream (1820-1906)
George Armstrong Custer: dressed to kill (1839-1876)
Thomas Alva Edison: shocking inventor (1847-1931)
Vincent Van Gogh: least likely to succeed (1853-1890)
J. Bruce Ismay: first-class coward (1862-1937)
Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe"): game over (1887-1951)
Amelia M. Earhart: winging it (1897-1937).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
920

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 200 pages :
Number of pages
200

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OL26469905M
Internet Archive
howtheychokedfai0000brag
ISBN 10
0545776775
ISBN 13
9780545776776
OCLC/WorldCat
891674690

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