History's Worst Predictions: And the People Who Made Them
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Chaline, Eric, PUBLISHER: Chartwell Books, "History's Worst Predictions "is a lighthearted look at fifty of the grandest predictions the world has seen--and how they proved to be spectacularly wrong. The book asks why we are still here, given that the end of the world has been foretold over 200 times, including: for by William Miller, who claimed to be in direct contact with god, and for by Nostradamus, king of the poor prediction. Also looks at now-infamous gaffes that are in fact fake, such as Charles H. Duell, former Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, who is wrongly credited with saying, in , that "there is nothing left to invent."