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The Pocket Guide to Brilliance

Author Bart King
Publisher Gibbs Smith
Category History
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Author(s)Bart King
PublisherGibbs Smith
ISBN / ASIN1423605047
ISBN-139781423605041
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Sales Rank1,169,066
CategoryHistory
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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Punctuated with both sharp and dry wit, Bart King presents a wealth of fascinating trivia.

Brilliant people are those who walk father, think deeper, and talk louder than the rest of us. They do what it takes to get the job done, and then some.


Learn from masters of brilliance like:
  • The first female journalist, Anne Royall, who forced an interview with John Quincy Adams by stealing his clothes while he was skinny dipping!

  • Candidate John Lindsay, who released chickens at a speech by his opponent, George Wallace, in order to shame Wallace into a debate.

  • Benjamin Franklin, the originator of phrases like "A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one," and "A man who lives on hope, dies farting."
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