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Oops may be the only American cultural history to ever include flaming elephants, government-funded psychics, and a cutting-edge cinematic technology known as "Smell-O-Vision." This chronicle of often overlooked snafus will delight fans of popular culture who appreciate that Americans' failures are as spectacular as their successes: bridges that collapse; flying cars that crash; sports promotions run amok; deodorant that nearly destroyed the earth; even failures that failed to happen! Veteran journalists Smith and Kiger select twenty miscues, goofs, complications, and failures that shaped…

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2 editions
  • Ebook · English · 2006
    HarperCollins · 9780061147647
  • Other · English · 2006
    Collins · 286 pages · 9780060780838
AnecdotesCivilizationConduct of lifeDisastersErrorsFadsHistoryMiscellanea