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How They Choked
Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic failures even lead to super successes . . . sometimes they become deep dark secrets. But remember—to fail is human, to laugh about our shortcomings divine.
From Montezuma II''s mistaking a conqueror for a god to Isaac Newton turning from science to alchemy to J. Bruce Ismay''s jumping the lifeboat line on the Titanic, How They Choked knocks fourteen famous achievers off their pedestals to reveal the human side of history.
Successful "failures" include:
Marco Polo
Queen Isabella of Spain
Montezuma II
Ferdinand Magellan
Anne Boleyn
Isaac Newton
Benedict Arnold
Susan B. Anthony
George Armstrong Custer
Thomas Alva Edison
Vincent Van Gogh
J. Bruce Ismay
"Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Amelia M. Earhart
