Think you are having a bad day? Fret not, history is littered with people having bad days. I am a fan of Bad Days in History by Michael Farquhar. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there is a sequel to Bad Days in History. Naturally, it is called More Bad Days in History. What else could you call it? The premise of both books is simple, the misfortunes of history are chronicled by 365 days of the year. Sure things can go bad, but there is entertainment value for somebody else. Farquhar has locked into something here. This is a perfect way to learn history through the back door snapshot of the misfortune of historical events. I recommend you buy Bad Days in History and catch up when More Bad Days in History comes out this summer.
In these gleefully gloomy pages, you’ll find a politically smeared George Washington, a cranky Colonel Sanders, a homicidal Saint Olga of Kiev, a cuckolded Napoleon, a flame-censored Steinbeck, a treacherous Douglas MacArthur, a weeping Einstein, an exasperated Charles Dickens, a humiliated King Henry II, and a faux-contrite Ted Kennedy. And that’s just in July!
From the decadent palaces of ancient Rome to the modern Halls of Congress, this illuminating (sometimes disturbing) narrative features an almost endless array of misbehavior, amusing mishaps, and breathtaking misfortune over the ages and across the historical spectrum. Each less-than-red-letter day of the year is recounted in Farquhar’s wry voice and comes with the enduring lesson The Wall Street Journal found in the first volume of this series: “Bad Days in History may offer consolation to the great mass of quotidian belly-achers . . . whose piddling misfortunes and regrets will snap neatly into perspective when set against [this] record of idiocy and disaster.”
This surprising and sometimes heartbreaking collection of mayhem and malady will leave you amused, intrigued, and horrified by day after day of hilarious catastrophe.
Michael Farquhar is a former writer and editor at the Washington Post, is the best-selling author of numerous books, including the critically acclaimed Behind the Palace Doors and Secret Lives of the Tsars, as well as the popular Penguin Treasury series: A Treasury of Royal Scandals, A Treasury of Great American Scandals, A Treasury of Deception, and A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Giulia Ghigini is the cover and interior artist who was born in 1983 in the heart of the desolating but industrious padanian lowland in Italy, Giulia Ghigini brings on the profession melding a huge love for images and a workaholic state of being.
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