Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that the experts are not ... well, experts? 'We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.' Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 I Wish I Hadn't Said That sets straight thousands of examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the ...
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Did you ever have the uneasy feeling that the experts are not ... well, experts? 'We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.' Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962 I Wish I Hadn't Said That sets straight thousands of examples of expert misunderstanding, miscalculation, egregious prognostication, boo-boos, and just plain lies. The experts have been wrong about everything under, including and beyond the sun: time, space, the sexes, the races, the environment, economics, politics, crime, education, the media, history and science. In I Wish I Hadn't Said That we see just how much the experts don't know. 'No woman in my lifetime will be Prime Minister' Margaret Thatcher
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Very good. Signed. First Edition. Unread. Signed by the author and inscribed on the title page: For Bryan---Better Watch What you say. Fondly Chris Cerf. From the back cover: A classic work of history of distortions, errors, half-truths and outright lies---we see just how much the experts don't know. Couple of ink scribble marks on inside back cover. 273pp.