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America (the Book)
- 227 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 2004
- 8 editions
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1 About this book
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction is a 2004 humor book written by Jon Stewart and other writers of The Daily Show that parodies and satirizes American politics and worldview. It has won several awards, and generated some controversy.
An updated trade paperback edition was published in 2006 as a "Teacher's Edition", with updated coverage of the Supreme Court Justices (including Samuel Alito and John Roberts, who were appointed after the 2004 book's publication), and fact checking by Stanley K. Schultz, professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with red marks and remarks appearing throughout, correcting the satirical "mistakes" (and a few honest errors) of the original edition.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: humor, politics, and history.
- Humor
- Politics and government
- History
- American Satire
- American wit and humor
- Humor, topic
- United states, politics and government
- Democracy
2 About Jon Stewart
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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