Sign-In
Cart
The United States of Epic Fails: 52 Crazy Stories and Blunders Through History That You Didn't Get Taught in School
Paperback
General Reference20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9781648450846
Publisher: Lak Publishing
Published: Mar 2 2022
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Have you ever wondered what the biggest failures in American history are?
Which sports teams just can't seem to catch a break and keep failing, over and over and over in the most disastrous manner?
What are some of the biggest failures in American pop culture?
In The United States of Epic Fails: 52 Crazy Stories and Blunders Through History That You Didn't Get Taught in School you'll learn all about these embarrassing moments and many other American failures on an epic level.
Here you will find out:
● What film almost destroyed a major studio and killed a movie genre?
● How did George Washington fail so miserably in his early military career?
● Who was the NFL player that famously ran the wrong way?
● When did Coca-Cola make its most epic failure?
● What popular lawn game was outlawed for being too dangerous?
We Americans may be used to being #1 and take a certain amount of pride in that, but this book takes a look at the less successful cases in American history in the world of politics, science, sports, and pop culture.
The United States of Epic Fails takes a look at epic American failures you didn't read about in school and some better-known failures from another perspective.
Whether you consider yourself a history buff, or you like watching train wrecks, there's sure to be plenty in this book to keep your interest.
From failed TV shows to presidential campaigns that probably shouldn't have happened and big mistakes made by some of the most brilliant people in the world, The United States of Epic Fails will give you plenty to talk about with your friends and family at the next gathering.
So open this book and your mind and see another side of the USA that you may not know existed.
Also from
O'Neill, Bill
The Great Book of Black Heroes: 30 Fearless and Inspirational Black Men and Women that Changed History
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War
O'Neill, Bill
Walker, Dwayne
Paperback
How To Survive A Freakin' Bear Attack: And 127 Other Survival Hacks You'll Hopefully Never Need
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Ultimate History Buff Challenge: Over 600 Quiz Questions for Curious History Lovers
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Asian American Heroes: 18 Asian American Men and Women Who Changed American History
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Vietnam War Trivia Book: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Vietnam War Stories
Walker, Dwayne
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Florida: The Crazy History of Florida with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World's Best Short Stories: 127 Funny Short Stories About Unbelievable Stuff That Actually Happened
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The American Revolutionary War Trivia Book: Interesting Revolutionary War Stories You Didn't Know
O'Neill, Bill
Walker, Dwayne
Paperback
I Remember That!: Captivating Stories, Interesting Facts and Fun Trivia for Seniors (Large Print Edition)
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Michigan: The Crazy History of Michigan with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Pennsylvania: The Crazy History of Pennsylvania with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Alaska: The Crazy History of Alaska with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Texas: The Crazy History of Texas with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of North Carolina: The Crazy History of North Carolina with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Spain: Interesting Stories, Spanish History & Random Facts About Spain
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Badass Women: 15 Fearless and Inspirational Women that Changed History
Walsh, Rachel
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Colorado: The Crazy History of Colorado with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Hawaii: The Crazy History of Hawaii with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Mexico: Interesting Stories, Mexican History & Random Facts About Mexico
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World War 2 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the Second World War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Ohio: The Crazy History of Ohio with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The American Civil War Trivia Book: Interesting American Civil War Stories You Didn't Know
O'Neill, Bill
Walker, Dwayne
Paperback
The Great American Trivia Quiz Book: An All-American Trivia Book to Test Your General Knowledge!
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Texas: The Crazy History of Texas with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Rock Trivia: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Rock and Roll
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of California: The Crazy History of California with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
Ronald Reagan Was A Badass: Crazy But True Stories About The United States' 40th President
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
Crazy Sh*t Dictators Do: Insane But True Stories You Won't Believe Actually Happened
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of North Carolina: The Crazy History of North Carolina with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Florida: The Crazy History of Florida with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Big Book of Unexplained Mysteries: 38 Mind-Boggling and Unsolved Mysteries Through History
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The American Civil War Trivia Book: Interesting American Civil War Stories You Didn't Know
O'Neill, Bill
Walker, Dwayne
Paperback
El Libro de Datos Curiosos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Historias Interesantes y Hechos Históricos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Walker, Dwayne
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of New York: The Crazy History of New York with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia Volume 2: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World War 1 Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts from the First World War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Hawaii: The Crazy History of Hawaii with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of New York: The Crazy History of New York with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Titanic: Interesting Stories, Random Facts and Amazing Trivia About Titanic
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Pennsylvania: The Crazy History of Pennsylvania with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Totally Awesome Book of Crazy Stories: Crazy But True Stories That Actually Happened!
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Ice Hockey: Interesting Facts and Sports Stories
Black, Ryan
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
American History By The State: Interesting Stories And Random Facts About Texas, California And New York
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
Did You Know This About World War II?: The Most Interesting Trivia Book About The Second World War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The American Revolutionary War Trivia Book: Interesting Revolutionary War Stories You Didn't Know
Walker, Dwayne
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of California: The Crazy History of California with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Fun Knowledge Encyclopedia Volume 3: The Crazy Stories Behind the World's Most Interesting Facts
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Crazy President Trivia: Interesting Stories of American Presidents
O'Neill, Bill
Walker, Dwayne
Paperback
The Vietnam War Trivia Book: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Vietnam War Stories
Walker, Dwayne
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of American Heroes: 32 True Tales From American History That Made Them Legends
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Big Fat Book of Juicy Trivia: Mind-blowing Facts And True Stories About Anything!
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Country: Amazing Trivia, Fun Facts & The History of Country Music
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
Abraham Lincoln Was A Badass: Crazy But True Stories About The United States' 16th President
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
George Washington Was A Badass: Crazy But True Stories About The United States' First President
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Big Book of Random Facts Volume 8: 1000 Interesting Facts And Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Brown, Seann
Paperback
The Great Book of Alaska: The Crazy History of Alaska with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Ohio: The Crazy History of Ohio with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Korean War Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts From The Korean War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Korean War Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts From The Korean War
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The Great Book of Michigan: The Crazy History of Michigan with Amazing Random Facts & Trivia
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
The World's Greatest Mysteries: Investigating Our World's Most Fascinating Secrets And Unsolved Mysteries
O'Neill, Bill
Paperback
Also in
General World History
Great Game East: India, China, and the Struggle for Asia's Most Volatile Frontier
Lintner, Bertil
Hardcover
Everything Is Tuberculosis (Signed Edition): The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Green, John
Hardcover
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Sides, Hampton
Hardcover
Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty
Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Hardcover
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Green, John
Hardcover
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Egan, Timothy
Paperback
The ZERO Percent: Secrets of the United States, the Power of Trust, Nationality, Banking and ZERO TAXES!
Dey, Du'vaul
Paperback
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Dawson, Kate Winkler
Hardcover
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
King, Charles
Hardcover
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Kendi, Ibram X.
Paperback
When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
Satow, Julie
Hardcover
Sisters in Science: How Four Women Physicists Escaped Nazi Germany and Made Scientific History
Campbell, Olivia
Hardcover
The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World
MacIntyre, Ben
Hardcover
Silence Equals Consent - the sin of omission: Speak Now or Forever Lose Your Freedom
Federer, William J.
Paperback
Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women
Pruwer, Tami Schlossberg
Silverstein, Julie
Hardcover
Cabinet of Curiosities: A Historical Tour of the Unbelievable, the Unsettling, and the Bizarre
Mahnke, Aaron
Hardcover
How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music
National Public Radio, Inc
Fensterstock, Alison
Hardcover
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (Large Print Edition)
Applebaum, Anne
Paperback
Talkin' Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America's Bohemian Music Capital
Browne, David
Hardcover
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded
Treuer, Anton
Paperback
Remember the First Ladies: The Legacies of America's History-Making Women
Kegan Smith, Nancy
McBride, Anita
Carlin, Diana
Paperback
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
Letts, Elizabeth
Paperback
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia
Williams, Paul L.
Paperback
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
Paperback
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
Prouty, L. Fletcher
Paperback
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld
Slater, Dan
Hardcover
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History
Clark, Nicola
Hardcover
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Paperback
A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps
Elledge, Jonn
Hardcover
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Rosen, Jeffrey
Hardcover
The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
Gorton, Stephanie
Hardcover
Cult Following: The Extreme Sects That Capture Our Imaginations--And Take Over Our Lives
Ocker, J. W.
Hardcover
Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
Hobbs, Jeff
Hardcover
The Woman They Could Not Silence: The Shocking Story of a Woman Who Dared to Fight Back
Moore, Kate
Paperback
The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
Paperback
Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them
Pedersen, Nate
Kang, Lydia
Hardcover
Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II
Kahler, Abbott
Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Hidden History of Math's Unsung Trailblazers
Revell, Timothy
Kitagawa, Kate
Hardcover
The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity
Gevirtz, Karen Bloom
Hardcover
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years
Miles, Rosalind
Paperback
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Putnam, Robert D.
Paperback
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Schwartz, Yardena
Hardcover
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
Hardcover
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
McGilchrist, Iain
Paperback
Empresses of Seventh Avenue: World War II, New York City, and the Birth of American Fashion
Macdonell, Nancy
Hardcover
Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Levitsky, Steven
Ziblatt, Daniel
Paperback
Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
Evans, Diane Carlson
Hardcover
Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization
Harl, Kenneth W.
Hardcover
Guerra Contra Todos Los Puertorriqueños: Revolución Y Terror En La Colonia Americana
Denis, Nelson A.
Paperback
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Hartman, Saidiya
Paperback
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Goldstone, Nancy
Hardcover
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Jacobsen, Annie
Paperback
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Mundy, Liza
Paperback
The Stained Glass Window: A Family History as the American Story, 1790-1958
Lewis, David Levering
Hardcover
Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul
Shetterly, Aran
Hardcover
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction
Gee, Henry
Hardcover
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Woodard, Colin
Paperback