Leland Gregory
Author of Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages
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Works by Leland Gregory
Stupid History: Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages (2007) 651 copies
America's Dumbest Criminals: Wild and Weird Stories of Fumbling Felons, Clumsy Crooks, and Ridiculous Robbers (1995) 189 copies
Great Government Goofs: Over 350 Loopy Laws, Hilarious Screw-Ups and Acts-Idents of Congress (1997) 46 copies
Presumed Ignorant!: Over 400 Cases of Legal Looniness, Daffy Defendants, and Bloopers from the Bench (1998) 32 copies
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- Legal name
- Gregory, Leland H., III
- Birthdate
- c. 1965
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Education
- Middle Tennessee State University (BS|Mass Communications)
Tennessee State University (MS|Political Communications) - Occupations
- political consultant
- Short biography
- Leland Gregory is the New York Times Bestselling author of "Stupid American History" and "America's Dumbest Criminals." He is also author of the National Bestsellers, "The Stupid Crook Book," "What's The Number for 911?" and "Stupid History." Leland is a former writer for Saturday Night Live, has written and sold a screenplay to Disney, optioned a screenplay to Touchstone and has written for a variety of magazines from Readers Digest to Maxim. A tireless promoter, he has made hundreds of radio and television appearances, including multiple appearances on NBC's Today show. Leland lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Idiots at Work: Chronicles of Workplace Stupidity by Leland Gregory
By the author of What's the Number for 911? and What's the Number for 911 Again?, this is a compendium of the genius-level cognition too many of us deal with in the workplace every day. The author (or compiler, I suppose) has an unfortunate tendency to offer bad puns. Nonetheless, this book will cause you to laugh out loud.
If you like your history with a bit a humor, then this book will fit your fancy. Don’t expect to learn a lot of details from it, and I would suggest further research for any tidbits you are really interested in, but it was interesting and entertaining. It’s a quick read, so you won’t have to invest a lot of time to get a varied slice of a lot of history.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The history tidbits were mostly inane and not particularly interesting. Neither my husband, nor I were impressed with this book or its accuracy.
Not even going to bother reading after trying and failing to make it 10 pages into another book of this author's. Life is too short to read bad books.
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Statistics
- Works
- 34
- Members
- 1,964
- Popularity
- #13,089
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 71
- ISBNs
- 77
