| Description |
xi, 178 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Deflowering a virgin continent -- Spain gets hot -- England starts some fun colonies -- The colonies develop a life-style -- The birthing contractions of a nation -- Kicking some British butt -- The forging of large, wasteful bureaucracy -- A brash young nation gets into wars and stuff -- Barging westward -- The Civil War : a nation pokes itself in the eyeball -- The nation enters chapter eleven -- Groping toward empire -- Deep international doo-doo -- A nation gets funky -- Severe economic bummerhood -- Major nonhumorous events occur -- International tension city -- The fifties : peace, prosperity, brain death -- The sixties : a nation gets high and has amazing insights, many of which later on turn out to seem kind of stupid -- The seventies : a relieved nation learns that it does not actually need a president -- The Reagan-Bush years : napping toward glory. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Humor.
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| ISBN |
039456541X: $15.95 |
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