Cover of The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem

The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Guide to Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres and Mayhem

by Stuart Berg Flexner, Doris Flexner · 1992

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A text for cynics, skeptics, and misanthropes chronicles the disastrous events—from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, to the death of Socrates, to the Exxon Valdezoil spill—that have shaped the history of the world.

Subject
historybiography
Genre
humorhistorical fictionwar and military
Themes
history
Audience
adult
Length
long · 448 pages

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