The World’s Worsts

A compendium of the most ridiculous feats, facts, & fools of all time.

Let’s face it, superlatives are depressing. For a guaranteed pick-me-up, it’s much more pleasant to savor the lower range of human accomplishment. For example, the battle deeds of Napoleon and Alexander the Great pale before those of France’s Philip VI, who lost 4,000 men (one-third of his fighting force) to a mere 100 English soldiers in the Battle of Crécy. And what member of Generation Debt will not enjoy this book’s listing of moguls who fortunes went south? The World’s Worsts contains hundreds of interesting items, including compilations of the calorie and fat content of Chinese main courses and a top ten list of Hollywood’s worst movie accents. A trivia treat.