Profiles in folly: history's worst decisions and why they went wrong
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 358 S. |
| ISBN: | 1402747683 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Authors Note: A Word Before We Begin
viti
PART ONE
The Decision to Gamble and Hope
The Trojans and the Trojan Horse (ca.
1250
вс)
j
George Armstrong Custer and
9
the Little Bighorn
(1876)
André
Maginot
and His Line
(1930-40) 29
Unsinkability and the Titanic
(1912) 25
Isoroku Yamamoto and Pearl Harbor (1
941) ¿5
NASA and the Space Shuttles
(1986,2003) 49
PART TWO
The Decision to Manipulate
William McKinley,
the USS Maine, and
67
the Spanish-American War
(1898)
Captain Alfred Dreyfus and the Honor of France
θ
о
(I894-I906)
Edward Bernays and the Campaign to Recruit
8
б
Women Smokers
(1929)
Richard M. Nixon and Watergate
(1973) 200
Metropolitan Edison and Three Mile Island
(1979) 209
Ken Lay and Enron
(2001) 2 2
θ
Dick Cheney and the Iraq War
(2003)
izj
PART THREE
The Decision to Leap (Without Looking)
King George
Ш
and the American
íj
7
Revolution
(1775-83)
The War Hawks and the War of I8I2
(1812)
ijl
John C. Calhoun and Nullification
(1832) 160
Russell, Majors, and Waddell and the 1
67
Pony Express
(I860)
Count Leopold
von Berchtold
and
/74
His Ultimatum
(1914)
PART FOUR
The Decision to Retreat
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and Dred Scott
(1857)
l8y
Thomas Edison and the Fight Against
Z
93
Alternating Current
(1893)
The Wright Brothers and the Wing zoo
Warping Lawsuits (I9I0-I4)
Alfred P. Sloan and Planned Obsolescence
(1920) 207
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler
(1938)
ziz
The British Empire and Gandhi
(1942)
zig
PART FIVE
The Decision to Destroy
Governor
Willem
Kiert
and the Slaughter zzg
of the Innocents
(1643)
Antonio
López
de Santa Anna and Zj6
the Alamo (I836)
Patriotism and Poison
Gas (I9I4-I8)
zjl
Roberto Goizueta and the New Coke
(1985)
ij-j
PART SIX
The Decision to Drift
James Buchanan and Secession
(I860) 267
George Gordon Meade and Ulysses S. Grant
276
at the Battle of the Crater
(1864)
Rasputin and the Russian Royals (I9I6)
zgĄ.
Ford Motor Company and the Edsel
(1957)
joj
John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs (1
96
1)
323
Tonkin Gulf, Persian Gulf
(1964, 2003)
jzo
George
W
Bush and Hurricane Katrina
(2005) 331
Further Reading
343
Index
349
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Contents
Authors Note: A Word Before We Begin
viti
PART ONE
The Decision to Gamble and Hope
The Trojans and the Trojan Horse (ca.
1250
вс)
j
George Armstrong Custer and
9
the Little Bighorn
(1876)
André
Maginot
and His Line
(1930-40) 29
Unsinkability and the Titanic
(1912) 25
Isoroku Yamamoto and Pearl Harbor (1
941) ¿5
NASA and the Space Shuttles
(1986,2003) 49
PART TWO
The Decision to Manipulate
William McKinley,
the USS Maine, and
67
the Spanish-American War
(1898)
Captain Alfred Dreyfus and the Honor of France
θ
о
(I894-I906)
Edward Bernays and the Campaign to Recruit
8
б
Women Smokers
(1929)
Richard M. Nixon and Watergate
(1973) 200
Metropolitan Edison and Three Mile Island
(1979) 209
Ken Lay and Enron
(2001) 2 2
θ
Dick Cheney and the Iraq War
(2003)
izj
PART THREE
The Decision to Leap (Without Looking)
King George
Ш
and the American
íj
7
Revolution
(1775-83)
The "War Hawks" and the War of I8I2
(1812)
ijl
John C. Calhoun and Nullification
(1832) 160
Russell, Majors, and Waddell and the 1
67
Pony Express
(I860)
Count Leopold
von Berchtold
and
/74
His Ultimatum
(1914)
PART FOUR
The Decision to Retreat
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and Dred Scott
(1857)
l8y
Thomas Edison and the Fight Against
Z
93
Alternating Current
(1893)
The Wright Brothers and the Wing zoo
Warping Lawsuits (I9I0-I4)
Alfred P. Sloan and Planned Obsolescence
(1920) 207
Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler
(1938)
ziz
The British Empire and Gandhi
(1942)
zig
PART FIVE
The Decision to Destroy
Governor
Willem
Kiert
and the "Slaughter zzg
of the Innocents"
(1643)
Antonio
López
de Santa Anna and Zj6
the Alamo (I836)
Patriotism and Poison
Gas (I9I4-I8)
zjl
Roberto Goizueta and the "New Coke"
(1985)
ij-j
PART SIX
The Decision to Drift
James Buchanan and Secession
(I860) 267
George Gordon Meade and Ulysses S. Grant
276
at the Battle of the Crater
(1864)
Rasputin and the Russian Royals (I9I6)
zgĄ.
Ford Motor Company and the Edsel
(1957)
joj
John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs (1
96
1)
323
Tonkin Gulf, Persian Gulf
(1964, 2003)
jzo
George
W
Bush and Hurricane Katrina
(2005) 331
Further Reading
343
Index
349 |
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