The Pocket Guide to Brilliance

By Bart King
(Gibbs Smith Publishers, Paperback, 9781423605041, 272pp.)

Publication Date: December 2008

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Google eBook, Paperback, Paperback

Categories: United States - General

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Punctuated with both sharp and dry wit, Bart King presents a wealth offascinating trivia.
Brilliant people are those who walk father, think deeper, and talklouder 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 interviewwith John Quincy Adams by stealing his clothes while he was skinnydipping
Candidate John Lindsay, who released chickens at a speech by hisopponent, George Wallace, in order to shame Wallace into a debate.
Benjamin Franklin, the originator of phrases like "A learnedblockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one," and "A man wholives on hope, dies farting."

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