America's failures are as spectacular as its successes: bridges that collapse, skyscrapers whose windows fall out, sports promotions that run amok, movies that smell, flying cars, and the polyester fashion felony known as the leisure suit. Veteran journalists Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger have selected 20 miscues, goofs, complications and failures that have helped shape modern America and reveal the lessons we can glean from them, with handy "clip-n-save recipes for disaster." Publishers Weekly says "this addition to the weird history subgenre is as informative as it is entertaining."