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Petri, Alexandra.
Subjects
History -- Humor.
United States -- History -- Humor.
United States -- History -- Sources -- Humor.
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Petri, Alexandra.
History -- Humor.
United States -- History -- Humor.
United States -- History -- Sources -- Humor.
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Alexandra Petri's US
history
: important American documents (I made up) / Alexandra Petri.
by
Petri, Alexandra.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2023.
Call #:
973.0207 P495a
Subjects
History
--
Humor
.
United
States
--
History
--
Humor
.
United
States
--
History
--
Sources
--
Humor
.
ISBN:
9781324006435 (hc)
Alternate title:
Alexandra Petri's
United
States
history
United
States
history
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvi, 326 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Alexandra Petri’s US
History
is the fake textbook you never knew you needed! As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from
history
have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat
history
one more time, we’re going to fail! Maybe it’s time for a new textbook. Alexandra Petri’s US
History
contains a lost (invented!)
history
of America. (A
history
for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding.) Petri’s 'historical fan fiction' draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation’s complicated past. On Petri’s deranged timeline, John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. Nearly eighty short, hilarious pieces span centuries of American
history
and culture. Ayn Rand rewrites The Little Engine That Could. Nikola Tesla’s friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon. The characters from Sesame Street invade Normandy. And Mark Twain
--
who famously said reports of his death had been greatly exaggerated
--
offers a detailed account of his undeath, in which he becomes a zombie."--Publisher.
Genre:
American wit and
humor
.
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