How They Choked
Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous

There are thumbnail biographies of over a dozen famous people that Bragg uses to make moral points of, so she's quite judgmental & over simplifies very badly at times. There is no balance or attempt to put many of their actions into historical context. I really noticed this with Benedict Arnold sinc......more

This was a pretty good book, I enjoyed it and the insight/facts put forth in it. Not too sure how much of the stuff is actually true, but the author does list many sources at the end, so I assume she did her research. Each chapter is a mini-quickie-biography of a person from history who has made, in......more

How They Choked How They Choked is an interesting book on the failures of the many people who are thought of as wise and famous. It knocks the people off their pedestals to reveal the true side of each story. The book contains 14 cases including Montezuma II, Amelia Earhart, and the Captain of the Ti......more

Georgia Bragg does it again. This follow up to her fantastic "How They Croaked" is another set of biographies of famous people with an emphasis on their flaws, failures and flops. Some of greatest and most notorious people in history were not necessarily very nice people. George Armstrong Custer was......more