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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Classic!By The Grey PiperThis is possibly the third copy I have bought of this book over the years. It is achingly funny.Different episodes of American history are written up in the style of various popular authors of the past. It helps if the reader is passingly familiar with those authors, but not necessary to get the humor. For example, the story of the Boston Tea Party told in the style of Ring Lardner -- you don't really need to know Lardner to get a laugh out of a colonial rube in the city not only speaking a deformed type of Brooklynese, but actually writing in the same way ("Me and the missus is walking aroun givin the town the double O O.") And the story of the Whiskey Rebellion written as one of Thornton Burgess' Peter Rabbit-type stories is sheer brilliance ("And sure enough, when Old Mister Smoke had cleared away, there was a Revenue Officer lying as dead as you please on the ground!")And so on and so on.Get it if you can. It's a classic, it's brilliant, it's some of the funniest stuff you will ever read.

Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells, I have imagined an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most characteristic literary figures. Apologies are due the various authors whose style and, more particularly, whose Weltanschauung I have here attempted to reproduce; thanks are due The Bookman for permission to reprint such of these chapters as appeared in that publication. I give both freely. Donald Ogden Stewart. He was a well known writer, playwright and critic, and a member of the famed . The Round Table met for lunch and drinks (mostly drinks) in New York at the Algonquin Hotel, and was composed of a varied assortment of writers and wits, including , , George Kaufman, , and Groucho Marx, among others. Stewart was best known for his work in film script writing, with an Academy Award to his credit for the screenplay for “The Philadelphia Story” in 1940. Among the scads of books he wrote, most with some sort of humorous theme, this one was one of his most popular. It was a take-off on “” by H. G. Wells, a runaway best seller at the time. Produced by Cygnus-Digital.com

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