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My Bad - The Apology Anthology - cover

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My Bad - The Apology Anthology

Paul Slansky, Arleen Sorkin

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

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Summary

With an additional 200 mind-boggling miscues and mealy-mouthed mea culpas, My Bad celebrates the best of this year's most exquisitely squirm-inducing pleas for forgiveness, from a variety of famous flubbers-Donald Rumsfield to Don Imus, Mel Gibson to Michael Richards-that proves public apologies are as American as pleading the Fifth.
Available since: 12/05/2009.
Print length: 304 pages.

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