Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

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My career as a voice actor had been over for months and me and my little girl Scarlet were living back at my mum’s place. Of course, he tries hard to tell the story of the lesser side characters in history who really deserved the title of “hero” in Otto’s opinion but often these arguments are less than convincing. Some of the individuals covered in this book became icons by accident or by dint of their good looks. If, like me, you’ve ever wondered what was so special about JFK or what exactly Che Guevara is famous for besides that poster, or why Andy Warhol is lionised in the art world, to name three of the subjects in ‘Fake Heroes’, this book is going to expand your horizons considerably.

Many of the icons in this book (Mother Theresa, JFK, the vile Nazi collaborator Coco Chanel) are “too big to fail” and tearing down these ‘fake heroes’ would do irreparable damage to the self-image of the societies that have created them.Even as radical thinkers talk of a better world and a brighter future, they can simultaneously hold disgusting opinions about other people. I don’t recognise the woman on our doorstep, with her blonde highlights, a diamond bracelet identical to my own and a bouncing baby boy in her arms. Much is made of Scott's sentimentality around the killing and eating of dogs, as if it's a failing or a weakness. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Recurrently contrasting the lives of real, often uncelebrated, heroes with lionised fakers, English employs a forensic and acerbic scalpel to question the whole notion of what heroism actually is in this entertaining and necessary book for a celebrity obsessed age. When you're doing something that's out of the ordinary, your mental programing, your paradigm, will try and stop you. In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. He never managed to do this himself, and no other edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first to last of his prize-winning collections. It does not in any way set out to totally discredit their memories, but instead fill in the real human behind the myths.Her flair for fashion was real, and she was industrious, but as she became hugely successful, a pretty dark side to her personality emerged. From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. It's taken me a while to get to reviewing this properly because I wanted to make sure I got everything completely correct fact-wise and also because I wanted to make sure my own biases wouldn't come into play too much.