In this 366-day tour of the worst happenings in history, Michael Farquhar (the “aficionado of misfortune,” as Kirkus Review called him, covers a brand-new array of blunderful behavior from, as he says in his introduction, “horribly behaved heroes, hotheaded sports stars, frosty spouses, floundering Founding Fathers, viciously mean mothers, squabbling generals, disrespected royals, and so many other notable personages who experienced (or caused) some extraordinarily Bad Days.”