How they choked : failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous / by Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley.
Title:
How they choked : failures, flops, and flaws of the awfully famous / by Georgia Bragg ; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley.
ISBN:
9780802734884
9780802734891
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury/Walker, 2014.
Physical Description:
200 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents:
Marco Polo: where on earth was Marco Polo? -- Queen Isabella of Spain: omg -- King Montezuma II: oops, there go the Aztecs -- Ferdinand Magellan: dead in the water -- Anne Boleyn: till beheading do us part -- Isaac Newton: the law's in town -- Benedict Arnold: stinker, traitor, soldier, spy -- Susan B. Anthony: voter revolt -- George Armstrong Custer: dressed to kill -- Thomas Alva Edison: shock and awful -- Vincent Van Gogh: least likely to succeed -- J. Bruce Ismay: first-class coward -- Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe"): game over -- Amelia M. Earhart: winging it.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG 7.2 6 169594
Added Author:
OCLC Number:
ocn858975729
Availability:
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