The Blunder Book: Colossal Errors, Minor Mistakes, and Surprising Slipups that have changed the course of history. The pantheon of error making is large and always growing. History is replete with notables who have made serious mistakes, who have every right to hide their red faces from the limelight: people like Columbus, Gutenburg, Washington, Einstein. All of them -- and many others -- have had to overcome the errors of their ways to make their...