What Needled Cleopatra and other little secrets airbrushed from history
Our view of the famous is one-dimensional; leading figures from history are pigeon-holed – Churchill the war-time genius, Gandhi the poor ascetic – but nobody is perfect and even the famous have their quirks, eccentricities and hidden secrets. And What Needled Cleopatra? reveals the often hilarious, sometimes shocking and always highly informative foibles of the great and the good.The book features the Prime Minister who, in three months, wrote 151 love letters to his mistress during Cabinet meetings; the US President who preferred to conduct business while sitting on the toilet; and the hidden side of Abraham Lincoln, ‘the Great Emancipator’ who believed in slavery.There is a cavalcade of history’s other big names with little-known foibles.
Our view of the famous is one-dimensional; leading figures from history are pigeon-holed – Churchill the war-time genius, Gandhi the poor ascetic – but nobody is perfect and even the famous have their quirks, eccentricities and hidden secrets. And What Needled Cleopatra? reveals the often hilarious, sometimes shocking and always highly informative foibles of the great and the good.The book features the Prime Minister who, in three months, wrote 151 love letters to his mistress during Cabinet meetings; the US President who preferred to conduct business while sitting on the toilet; and the hidden side of Abraham Lincoln, ‘the Great Emancipator’ who believed in slavery.There is a cavalcade of history’s other big names with little-known foibles. Hitler possibly has a Jewish ancestor; Einstein, the cleverest man who lived, regularly forgot his shoes and never learned to drive; and Karl Marx went on regular pub crawls around London while writing his epic treatise on communism.
| Author | Phil Mason |
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| Publisher | Aurum |
| Place | London |
| Year | 2009 |
| ISBN | 9781906779412 |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Very Good |
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