Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

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If you love to laugh, if you love your country, if you are unaware that "the Sixth Amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you have the right to a trial before a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty," Dave Barry Slept Here is the book for you. Every single momentous event and crucial movement is covered, including:

• The Birthing Contractions of a Nation
  
• Kicking Some British Butt
  
• The Forging of a Large, Wasteful Bureaucracy
  
• The Civil War: A Nation Pokes Itself in the Eyeball
  
• The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death
  
• The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory
  
• And much more!
  

Dave runs American history through the wringer, and comes up with some wonderfully warped formulations. (The Vikings, for example, "were extremely rugged individuals whose idea of a fun time was to sail over and set fire to England, which in those days was fairly easy to ignite because it had a very high level of thatch, this being the kind of roof favored by the local tribespeople...") Covering pre-Columbian days through the dawn of the Bush administration, Dave Barry Slept Here is the funniest thing to hit this great nation since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930.









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