The Pessimist's Guide to History 3e - by Doris Flexner & Stuart Berg Flexner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Freshly updated with the latest disasters"--Cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The classic irreverent look at the past--now updated with even more appalling facts!</p><p>Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded--and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundreds of devastating epidemics; for every benevolent despot, a thousand like Vlad the Impaler; for every cup half-full, a larger cup half-empty. This enthralling, enlightening, and devilishly entertaining chronicle of disasters and dastardly deeds brings to light the darkest events in history and the most abysmal calamities to strike the planet . . . so far.</p><p>88 BC: Mithridates VI Eupator provides an early example of genocide by massacring 100,000 Romans.</p><p>1347: Saint Vitus' Dance Epidemic shimmies across Europe like a deadly disco fever, leaving its victims twitching, uncontrollably leaping, and foaming at the mouth.</p><p>1888: Jack the Ripper stalks through the dark alleys of Whitechapel, England, turning the world's oldest profession into the world's most dangerous one.</p><p>1939: A Swiss chemist wins a Nobel Prize for developing DDT--and the environment gets another nail in the coffin.</p><p>2005: Hurricane Katrina devastates the Gulf Coast. In a classic double whammy, the government response also devastates the Gulf Coast.</p><p>And much, much more!</p>
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