The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition) Paperback - 1998
by Christopher Cerf; Victor Navasky (Joint Author)
This new and updated version of a classic reference work--written by the authors of "The Officially Politically Correct Dictionary"--brings the history of distortions, errors, half-truths, and outright lies into the information age.
From the jacket flap
Did you ever have the uneasy feeling the experts
are not . . . well, expert?
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
--Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale University, October 17, 1929
"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
--Irving Thalberg's warning to Louis B. Mayer regarding Gone With the Wind
"We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
--Decca Recording Company executive, turning down the Beatles, 1962
"With over fifty foreign cars already on sale here the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself."--Business Week, 1968
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
--President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
"Bill Clinton will lose to any Republican who doesn't drool on stage."
--The Wall Street Journal, in a 1995 editorial
The Experts Speak systematically catalogues, footnotes, and sets straight these and a couple of thousand other 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 this expanded and updated edition (now more error-filled than ever), we see just how much the experts don't know. But the book also goes deeper, presenting a through-the-looking-glass chronicle of human knowledge: the story of what was and is so, as seen through the story of what we wanted to and did believe.
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- Title The Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation (Revised Edition)
- Author Christopher Cerf; Victor Navasky (Joint Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Expanded and Upd
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Villard Books, New York
- Date 1998-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679778066 / 0679778063
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 8.96 x 6.22 x 1.17 in (22.76 x 15.80 x 2.97 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Quotations, English
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98011252
- Dewey Decimal Code 082
Media reviews
Citations
- Library Journal, 04/01/1999, Page 134
- Rec Ref Bks in Paperback, 01/01/2000, Page 12
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