Worthless

This book is so bad that I think it should never have been offered for sale by audible if there is anyone in charge of creating its inventory. Unbelievably bad writing, the most simplistic of summaries and no analytical skills or insight apparent.

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Disappointing..tainted by author's political views

I thought this would be an objective historical view of history's mistakes. The first half of the book is mostly that, which is why I gave it two stars. Unfortunately, in the second half, the author tempers his explanations of mistakes based on his rather liberal political viewpoint. He compares Vietnams 58,000 U.S. troop deaths, to the Iraq war's less than one twentieth fatal casualties. George Bush is the worse president ever, so says the author. Really? Worse than Jimmy Carter? LBJ? Again, if I knew half the book would be slanted with leftist hyperbole, I would have not wasted a credit.

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A skewed view on history

This book although diving into interesting times on history choose to ignore or disregard glaring facts to make its point. The author offers very little humility on behalf of acknowledging other view points and makes the book come off as my personal complaints about history instead of looking at the full story.

This guy looks to the left .

This guy views the whole world from a liberal leftist view point . Don't bother with this title unless you are a fan of talking points the left .

very entertaining!

As fun to listen from start to finish.performance fantastic. I highly recommend suitable for middle schoolers on up.

Entertaining if not Engrossing

This is the sort of book that you can read over the course of two days or a year. You can put it down and pick it up a few weeks later because its made up of different short histories. The author doesn't go very deep into any specific story, so if you're already well acquainted with some of the stories you won't get much out of them. It's likely that you will still enjoy it however. In book form I'm sure this would be a good "bathroom book" and I mean that in a nice way.

Disappointing

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No, not really. Each chapter opening creates expectation which is never really fulfilled. The examples discussed could all be categorized as something other than "Folly".

What three words best describe Scott Peterson’s voice?

Average, sometimes breathless.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No