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With the incisive political commentary of "The Daily Show," this book examines America's birth as a nation and her current functioning as a democratic hegemon. "America" is formatted like a social studies textbook and is reminiscent of "School House Rock" only with a more cynical and irreverent tone. The content ranges from vaguely sarcastic to blatantly inappropriate, the humor fluctuating from intellectual to crude, but it will keep you smiling throughout. As you travel from America's hand in establishing democracy (America invented not only democracy but freedom, justice, and time-sharing), to the early years of our democracy, including the basis of policy in administrations such as Millard Fillmore's (Magical talking cats!), to the current state of our executive, legislative and judicial brancbes, asking what's under a Supreme Court justice's robe (Genitalia!), to finally taking a look at what the furture of democracy holds (Robots!), you will enjoy this satirical romp and maybe learn a thing or two. Maybe.Read full review
I'm as teacher and while a LOT of the content is not entirely school-appropriate there are TONs of great lessons and lesson ideas that can easily be edited for a MS or HS audience.
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Clever, incisive humor in the style of the Daily Show With Jon Stewart. Great parody of a high school history textbook, detailed right down to the forward, maps, photo captions, and time lines. I had a first edition of this book before (I bought it when it first came out), but I sent it to Jon Stewart's people in New York asking for him to autograph it. I never got it back, so I'm really happy to have this first edition copy, signed by Jon Stewart and his colleagues.
I bought this for my husband and he loves it!! He wasn't able to put it down. It is very witty and pretends to be an actual history textbook. Quite entertaining for anybody that has an open mind and enjoys The Daily Show's sense of humor.
I guess you have to be in the authors camp to see any substantial relevance. Definitely an alternative look.
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