The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem—from 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007 by Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner

The Pessimist's Guide to History: An Irresistible Compendium of Catastrophes, Barbarities, Massacres, and Mayhem—from 14 Billion Years Ago to 2007

Doris Flexner, Stuart Berg Flexner

500 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history reference informative slow-paced
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The classic irreverent look at the past—now updated with even more appalling facts!Fourteen billion or so years ago, the Big Bang exploded—and it's been downhill from there. For every spectacular discovery throughout history, there have been hundr...

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