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THE GUINNESS BOOK OF POLITICAL BLUNDERS

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Focusing on the unforgiving and blunder-strewn world of politics, this book aims to provide an entertaining survey of incompetence from ancient times to the present.

It records major blunders such as Suez and Watergate, and slips of the tongue by the likes of Quayle, Ford and Thatcher.As well as shedding light on celebrated examples of political nemesis, including the fall of Charles Stewart Parnell and the dethronement of Margaret Thatcher, the book recounts some less-well-known but nonetheless influential examples of bungling.

The roll-call of fools, villains and victims encompasses names as diverse as Napoleon III, Hitler, Nixon, Churchill, McCarthy, Galtieri and Carter.

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Product Details
Guinness
085112545X / 9780851125459
Paperback
320
07/06/1996
England
English
188p. : ill.
25 cm
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