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Loading... Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's…by Onion Editors (otherwise under Scott Dikkers)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Pretty damn funny. (  ) CarmenOhio | Jul 9, 2009 |  A brilliant collection of satirical news stories from 'The Onion', documenting in retrospect events of twentieth-century America. Cleverly written and very funny, this book will appeal to anyone who appreciates intelligent satire, but especially those with an interest in history, who can pick out the humorous revisions of historical detail. The book can get a bit repetitive if read in large chunks, but it's a great item to have on your bookshelf to dip in and out of, and to share with those who have not yet discovered the joy of reading The Onion. ( ) mr_pand | Feb 24, 2009 | A brilliant parody of 100 years of newspaper publishing. (  ) cameronl | Oct 5, 2008 | When I pick this book up, I can hardly put it down. There is so much packed into this book it is amazing. I don't think that I have read everything in it, even. Absolutely hilarious, esoteric and arcane humor references (one of the authors defended in an interview the fact that they had President McKinley jokes). Truly an amazing piece of humor. grady.cameron | Sep 28, 2007 | Brilliant satire from the Onion. They manage to skewer the folly of those who let themselves be led too easily by the news, those who become too packaged and processed. ( ) AlexTheHunn | Aug 16, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"
AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion
Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"
Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says
And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan
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