Getting into Guinness

“Here at last is the perfect read for anyone who ever picked up a copy of Guinness World Records and asked, ‘Who are these people and why do they do this?’” —Jake Halpern, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and author
 
The enthralling fifty-year history of the Guinness World Records is a story of phenomenal success, equally compelling failures, and extreme oddities. People all over the world striv...