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@2@'In dark times, it's reassuring to learn that we've always been a bunch of clueless f*cking nitwits' @20@Stuart Heritage, author of @18@Don't Be a Dick, Pete@19@@21@@3@@2@'Very funny' @20@Mark Watson@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@An exhilarating journey through the most creative and catastrophic f*ck ups in human history, from our very first ancestor falling out of that tree, to the most spectacular fails of the present day. @21@@3@@2@In the seventy thousand years that modern human beings have walked this earth, we've come a long way. Art, science, culture, trade - on the evolutionary food chain, we're real winners. But, frankly, it's not exactly been plain sailing, and sometimes - just occasionally - we've managed to really, truly, quite unbelievably f*ck things up.@3@@2@From Chairman Mao's Four Pests Campaign, to the American Dustbowl; from the Austrian army attacking @18@itself@19@ one drunken night, to the world's leading superpower electing a reality TV mogul as President... it's pretty safe to say that, as a species, we haven't exactly grown wiser with age. @3@@2@@20@So, next time you think you've really f*cked up, this book will remind you: it could be so much worse...@21@@3@@2@@20@FURTHER PRAISE FOR @18@HUMANS@19@:@21@@16@@20@@21@@16@@20@@21@'A light-touch history of moments when humans have got it spectacularly wrong... Both readable and entertaining' @18@@20@Telegraph@21@@19@@3@
