Bruce Felton:What Were They Thinking? : Really Bad Ideas Throughout History by Bruce Felton
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What could Tommy Dorsey have been thinking in 1940 when he installed his orchestra in the monkey house of the Philadelphia Zoo to perform a concert for the apes? Could artist Rudy Giacomo… More...
What could Tommy Dorsey have been thinking in 1940 when he installed his orchestra in the monkey house of the Philadelphia Zoo to perform a concert for the apes? Could artist Rudy Giacomo have been serious when he proposed building a 39 mile manicotti around Manhattan Island? Was the Nobel Prize Committee on drugs when they conferred the 1949 prize in Medicine to the man who perfected the lobotomy? Bad ideas are everywhere--they're the tile grout of history, the crabgrass of civilization, poking up through every crack in our thinking. According to government statistics, they outnumber good ideas six hundred to one. "What Were They Thinking "is a compendium of some 400 harebrained schemes, fool notions, and misguided obsessions both grandiose and mundane. In it readers will uncover one man's effort to market a board game based on the Lebanese civil war...an Iowa State University professor's proposal to blow up the moon...and Senator Victor Biaka-Boda's ill-considered campaign trip to the Ivory Coast hinterlands. (Not only did he lose the election, his constituents ate him.) Within these pages, the aim has not been to probe the motives behind bad ideas, but simply to recount and, above all, revel in them. The stories in W"hat Were They Thinking? "range from the horrific to the hilarious; many are both. But none are fanciful. Every item has been carefully researched from published, non-fiction sources such as newspapers, trade journals, magazines, government reports, research studies, corporate literature, and reference books. Says Felton, ""To have been any less exacting in my insistence on accuracy would have been a "terrible" idea,"" Media > Book, [PU: TwoDot; Globe Pequot]<
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Felton, Bruce:WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? - Really Bad Ideas Throughout History
- Paperback 2003, ISBN: 9780762726677
Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreas… More...
Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a faint partial crease on the front cover; no interior markings. The Contents are: Thousands Flee as Mutant Cheese Attacks White House - Bad Ideas in American Politics and Government; Making the Whole World British - Bad Ideas in Politics and Government Beyond U.S. Shores; The Plot to Kill Hitler's Mustache - Bad Ideas in War and Peace; The Strange Journey of Haydn's Head - Bad Ideas in Arts and Letters; Officer Arrest that Projectionist - Bad Ideas in Popular Culture; Nuking the Moon - Bad Ideas in Science and Medicine; Selling the Babe - Bonehead Plays in the Field of Sports; Honey I Drained the Canal - A Miscellany of Moronic Stunts, Pointless Heroics, and Unsafe Practices; Board Games from Hell - and Other Marketplace Excesses; Thanks but I Had a Big Lunch - A Smorgasbord of Unappetizing Ideas; Monsieur Sauvage's Flying Egg - Transportation Ideas that Hopped the Track; Look Younger and Have Fewer Hemorrhoids - Bad Ideas for Better Living; When Tommy Dorsey Played for Apes - Bad Ideas in Flora and Fauna; Fat Men in Chimneys - Lamebrained Crimes Misdemeanors and Legal Pronouncements; and The End - Death as the Ultimate Bad Idea.., The Globe Pequot Press, 2003, 3<
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Felton, Bruce:WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? - Really Bad Ideas Throughout History
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Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a faint partial crease on the front … More...
Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003. (xi) 274 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine and a faint partial crease on the front cover; no interior markings. The Contents are: Thousands Flee as Mutant Cheese Attacks White House - Bad Ideas in American Politics and Government; Making the Whole World British - Bad Ideas in Politics and Government Beyond U.S. Shores; The Plot to Kill Hitler's Mustache - Bad Ideas in War and Peace; The Strange Journey of Haydn's Head - Bad Ideas in Arts and Letters; Officer Arrest that Projectionist - Bad Ideas in Popular Culture; Nuking the Moon - Bad Ideas in Science and Medicine; Selling the Babe - Bonehead Plays in the Field of Sports; Honey I Drained the Canal - A Miscellany of Moronic Stunts, Pointless Heroics, and Unsafe Practices; Board Games from Hell - and Other Marketplace Excesses; Thanks but I Had a Big Lunch - A Smorgasbord of Unappetizing Ideas; Monsieur Sauvage's Flying Egg - Transportation Ideas that Hopped the Track; Look Younger and Have Fewer Hemorrhoids - Bad Ideas for Better Living; When Tommy Dorsey Played for Apes - Bad Ideas in Flora and Fauna; Fat Men in Chimneys - Lamebrained Crimes Misdemeanors and Legal Pronouncements; and The End - Death as the Ultimate Bad Idea.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo., The Globe Pequot Press, 2003, 3<
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Felton, Bruce:What Were They Thinking?: Really Bad Ideas Throughout History
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