Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
by Dave Barry
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Author: Dave BarryEdition: Audio Cassette
Format: Audiobook
Published: 1990-05-26
ISBN: 039458564X
Publisher: Random House Audio
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Book Review: The Funniest Book I've Ever Read
Summary: 5 Stars
Dave Barry's "Dave Barry Slept Here" is a hilarious pseudo/satire-history of the United States. Anyone familiar with Dave Barry's wit from his columns will immediately recognize the same wit unleashed on so much of our history that we have heard, if not necessarily really learned, throughout our lives.
Dave Barry writes like a high-school student - intentionally, of course. He attributes great advances to "technology," isn't interested in the Smoot-Hawley Tariff so he skips it because it sounds boring, and decides that every important event in American history happened on October 8th so that he doesn't have to remember any more dates (even the Fourth of July happened on October 8th, 1776). And he ends every chapter with hilarious "discussion questions" that are just as funny as the text.
I've read and re-read this hilarious book, and it's great to just pick up and start reading in the middle whenever you need a good chuckle. Anyone who likes Dave Barry, enjoys American history, or is interested in what three-word sentence you can rearrange the letters in "Spiro Agnew" to spell (hint: the first word is "grow") should read this book and enjoy!
Summary of Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
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.The bestseller that riotously recreates a "sort of" history of the United States, from the "funniest man in America."
-- The New York Times
What the Blitz did for London, satirist Dave Barry now gleefully does for the story of our country. Beginning with his riveting off-the-wall account of our nation's early years -- "England Starts Some Fun Colonies" -- to his uproarious version of today's headlines -- "The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory" -- Barry gives us history without the dull parts, factless but very, very funny. From the buffalo who roamed (where were they going, anyway?) onward, here is an instant, streamlined compendium of events as they never actually happened.
With tongue firmly planted in both cheeks, Dave Barry has tackled the problem of our nationwide historical illiteracy with a devilishly clever narrative that will irrevocably close the American mind!
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