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America (The Book) was written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, and other writers of The Daily Show. Karlin was the show's executive producer and Javerbaum its head writer. The book is written as a parody of a United States high school civics textbook , complete with study guides, questions, and class exercises.
The American Book Review was founded in 1977 by Ronald Sukenick. [6] According to author and essayist Raymond Federman, in his reading with American Book Review in 2007, Sukenick founded the American Book Review because The New York Times had stopped reviewing books by "that group labeled experimental writers", and Sukenick wanted to start a "journal where we can review books that everyone is ...
The book goes on to discuss microaggressions, identity politics, "safetyism", call-out culture, and intersectionality. [1] The authors define safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make tradeoffs demanded by other ...
"9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America" comes just in time as the country prepares to select the 45th U.S. president. Hopefully whoever's elected doesn't end up being number 10 on McClanahan's ...
A characteristic of the Smurf language is the frequent use of the undefinable word "smurf" and its derivatives in a variety of meanings. The Smurfs frequently replace both nouns and verbs in everyday speech with the word "smurf": "We're going smurfing on the River Smurf today". When used as a verb, "to smurf" typically means "to make", "to be ...
100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is #37) is a non-fiction book by conservative [1] pundit Bernard Goldberg that was published in 2005. The book's central idea is to name and blame a long list of specific individuals whom Goldberg implicates in making the United States a "far more selfish, vulgar, and cynical place."
Set during the Civil War, a long way from the front lines, Roberto Minervini’s “The Damned” continues the Italian helmer’s career-long examination of the rifts and affinities between ...
The book received mostly positive reviews. Janet Maslin of The New York Times remarked that Brooks "made the nervy move of transposing his worrywart sensibility from film to book. Two things are immediately apparent about his debut novel: that it's as purposeful as it is funny, and that Mr. Brooks has immersed himself deeply in its creation."