Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780425257364)

Hindsight hurts.

* The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense--which instead starts a revolution.
* In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself...and the Great Depression gets greater.
* Nixon tapes everything he says in the Oval Office, believing it will all be of great historical value. He turns out to be right when those same tapes cost him his presidency.
* Charles the First cuts a deal with the Irish to fight Parliament that instead loses him public support--and later his head.

Along with 100 Mistakes that Changed the World, Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing proves once again that when global leaders drop the ball, the whole world shakes. With a hundred more bombshell blunders--from Pickett's Charge to the Lewinski scandal--this compendium takes a fascinating look at some of history's greatest turns for the worse.

Author: Bill Fawcett
ISBN-10: 0425257363
ISBN-13: 9780425257364
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 12/04/2012
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.00w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2012