Bill Fawcett

Examines the world's mistakes throughout history, including military insurgencies, inflation and devaluation of currency, financial disasters, ecological collapses, pandemics and epidemics, and the rise of radical political minorities.

A lighthearted treasury of presidential trivia and historical lore features such tidbits as the mistresses of the founding fathers, the theft plot surrounding Lincoln's body, and claims pertaining to John Adams's sanity.