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Most Popular Books by Georgia Bragg

Georgia Bragg is the author of How They Croaked (2011) and How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous.

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How They Croaked

by: Georgia Bragg

release date: Mar 15, 2011

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Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example:
It is believed that Henry VIII's remains exploded within his coffin while lying in state. Doctors "treated" George Washington by draining almost 80 ounces of blood before he finally kicked the bucket. Right before Beethoven wrote his last notes, doctors drilled a hole in his stomach without any pain medication.
Readers will be interested well past the final curtain, and feel lucky to live in a world with painkillers, X-rays, soap, and 911.

How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous

by: Georgia Bragg

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Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic failures even lead to super successes . . . sometimes they become deep dark secrets. But remember-to fail is human, to laugh about our shortcomings divine. From Montezuma II's mistaking a conqueror for a god to Isaac Newton turning from science to alchemy to J. Bruce Ismay's jumping the lifeboat line on the Titanic, How They Choked knocks fourteen famous achievers off their pedestals to reveal the human side of history.

Successful "failures" include:
Marco Polo . Queen Isabella of Spain . Montezuma II . Ferdinand Magellan . Anne Boleyn . Isaac Newton . Benedict Arnold . Susan B. Anthony . George Armstrong Custer . Thomas Alva Edison . Vincent Van Gogh . J. Bruce Ismay . "Shoeless Joe" Jackson . Amelia M. Earhart

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