Thanks for joining me on the Blog Tour for MORE BAD DAYS IN HISTORY by Michael Farquhar.
About More Bad Days in History
• Publisher: National Geographic (June 8, 2021)
• Hardcover:? 464 pages
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.
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𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙳𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢, 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚜𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚢, 𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚍𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚢𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝟹𝟼𝟼 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜. 𝙸𝚝’𝚜 𝚊 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚞𝚛. 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙸 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚢𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚞𝚍 𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚑 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚖𝚎 𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚜 𝚝𝚒𝚍𝚋𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚜𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚢.
𝙸 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔, 𝚒𝚝’𝚜 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚏𝚞𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍!
About Michael Farquhar
MICHAEL FARQUHAR, 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.
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“Gleefully gloomy” is the best way to describe anything, I have to use that more often! Thank you for being on this tour! Sara @ TLC Book Tours
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