Highlights the mistakes, failures, and flaws of fourteen famous people in history including Marco Polo, Queen Isabella of Spain, Anne Boleyn, Ferdinand Magellan, Isaac Newton, Vincent Van Gogh, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Amelia Earhart. Includes illustrations.

Marco Polo : where on Earth was Marco Polo? -- Isabella of Castile : omg -- Montezuma II : oops, there go the Aztecs -- Ferdinand Magellan : dead in the water -- Anne Boleyn : till beheading do us part -- Isaac Newton : the law's in town -- Benedict Arnold : stinker, traitor, soldier, spy -- Susan B. Anthony : voter revolt -- George Armstrong Custer : dressed to kill -- Thomas Alva Edison : shock and awful -- Vincent Van Gogh : least likely to succeed -- J. Bruce Ismay : first-class coward -- Joseph Jefferson "Shoeless Joe" Jackson : game over -- Amelia M. Earhart : winging it.