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50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland

English · Paperback / Softback

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@2@To be Scottish is to have a lot to live down, and as Allan Brown shows, this lot do the job superbly. @3@@2@Whether it be Robert Burns, indecipherable bard of rustic gibberish or Sean Connery, die-hard advocate of a country he refuses to live in.@3@@2@Or, Alex Salmond, the chortling bullfrog of separatism or Tommy Sheridan, the sexy socialist hardliner. They're all here, and many others; a veritable embassy of bad ambassadors.@3@@2@@18@50 People Who Screwed Up Scotland@19@ is a humorous and chronologically-sequential series of essays, histories and anecdotes that consider those episodes and occurrences in Scotland's political, cultural and social story where, against all odds, defeat was plucked from the jaws of victory.@3@

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Authors Allan Brown
Assisted by A. A. Gill (Foreword)
Publisher Constable
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2016
 
EAN 9781472119629
ISBN 978-1-4721-1962-9
No. of pages 288
Dimensions 126 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
Subjects Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire
Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

Scotland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Humour collections & anthologies, Humour collections and anthologies

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