This book is by the same author as "How They Croaked", a former MSBA choice. Rather than look at deaths, this one looks at failures of the famous. From Amelia Earhardt to Marco Polo, find out how these people failed in different ways. It's not all doom and gloom: some of these failures ended up working later, and some came true after death, making them successful then. Read it for the laughs, and the reminder that failure is not the end for you.