Автор: Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, Foreword by M Название: I Wish I Hadn`t Said That ISBN: 0006531490 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006531494 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that the experts are not ...well, experts? 'We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.' Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 I Wish I Hadn't Said That sets straight thousands of examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history and science. In I Wish I Hadn't Said That we see just how much the experts don't know. 'No woman in my lifetime will be Prime Minister' Margaret Thatcher
Автор: Cerf Christopher, Navasky Victor S. Название: Mission Accomplished! or How We Won the War in Iraq ISBN: 1416569936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416569930 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 2298.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq is the definitive collection -- systematically categorized, indexed, and footnoted for your convenience -- of authoritative misinformation, disinformation, misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies, about the Iraq War. Never before has such a large and diverse group of experts been so unanimously in favor of a particular national policy as they were in the case of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, note Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, who, as co-founders of the Institute of Expertology, the nation's leading purveyor of expertise on expertise, were uniquely qualified to assemble this impressive collection. In the face of such a consensus, we had no choice but to ask ourselves, 'Could the iron law of expertology -- the experts are never right -- be wrong?' At once an entertainment, a cautionary tale, a critique of mass media, a reference tool, and a postwar manifesto, Mission Accomplished! presents, as no book has before, the collective wisdom of all those who are presumed to know what they talking about on the subject of America's adventure in Iraq. As this hilarious, yet depressing, volume demonstrates, they don't. From MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. -- President George W. Bush, May 1, 2003 [Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces. -- L. Paul Bremer III, Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, November 17, 2003 Military action will not last more than a week. -- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, January 23, 2003 I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah. -- President George W. Bush, at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, December 10, 2001
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