“The Great Frenchman,” Ferdinand de Lesss, was convinced that he was the one who built the Panama Canal. No, he’s not an engineer, no, he’d never actually been to Panama. However, he managed to dig the Suez Canal, and everyone said that it was impossible either. How difficult is that?
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The road between the sea David McCullough, Canyon of Hell Matthew Parker, John Frank StevensClifford Foust, and Framers Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Francis de Vericourt.
Academic Research:
Michael Hogan, “Theodore Roosevelt and the Heroes of Panama,” Presidential Research Quarter, vol. 19, No. 1, Part I: American Foreign Policy in the 1990s and Part II: TR, Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1901-1919 (Winter 1989), pp. 79-94
Jones, EE; Harris, VA (1967). “Attributes.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 3(1):1–24. doi: 10.1016/0022-1031 (67) 90034-0. (See also Patrick Healy.”Basic attribution errors“.)
