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|  | | The Dregs of History
This is a book about those who tried hard, but came up short. And who knows...some of them might even have existed!
Was Quivering Edward the inventor of the first Weapon of Mass Destruction?
What role did Annie Johnson (the Rat Whisperer), allegedly play in the Great Fire of London?
Did Faultless Rufus write the greatest travel sonnet ever, or was Queen Elizabeth I quite justified in putting his head on a pole outside the Tower of London?
Was God really out to get Buckley 'Nine-Lives' Cartwright, or was he just always in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Fulton Farnsworth Fletcher - scandalously overlooked urban poet, or deserved speck of manure about | |  | | You Can't Polish a Turd - the Civil Servant's Manual
The is the manual that all civil servants need on their bookshelf to make sense of what is going on around them.
'You Can't Polish A Turd' is a book born of a lifetime - well, it felt like a lifetime - of experience working in and with bureaucracy. br />
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Some might deem it cynical, others not cynical enough, but most will repeatedly nod their heads in profound recognition. br />
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If you are already a bureaucrat, you may find it brings tears to your eyes - both of laughter and despair - and whatever your bureaucratic hue, public or corporate, it is probably the book you will wish you had read years ago, the one which would have saved you from committing all those silly, and sometimes |
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