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Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States Mass market paperbound - 1997

by Dave Barry

A Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist and columnist whose growing popularity is making him the next Buchwald has his way with the "history" of the mother country, including its founding fathers. An offbeat look at the U.S. for fans of Patrick McManus and Lewis Grizzard.


From the publisher

Dave Barry is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for the Miami Herald. He is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the recent Dave Barry in Cyberspace. He lives in Miami, Florida.

First line

HUNDREDS of thousands of years ago, America was very different.

From the rear cover

If you love to laugh, if you love your country, if you are unaware that "the Sixth Amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you have the right to a trial before a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty," Dave Barry Slept Here is the book for you. Every single momentous event and crucial movement is covered, including:
The Birthing Contractions of a Nation Kicking Some British Butt
The Forging of a Large, Wasteful Bureaucracy The Civil War: A Nation Pokes Itself in the Eyeball
The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory
And much more!

From the jacket flap

If you love to laugh, if you love your country, if you are unaware that "the Sixth Amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you have the right to a trial before a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty," Dave Barry Slept Here is the book for you. Every single momentous event and crucial movement is covered, including:
The Birthing Contractions of a Nation Kicking Some British Butt
The Forging of a Large, Wasteful Bureaucracy The Civil War: A Nation Pokes Itself in the Eyeball
The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory
And much more!

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  • Title Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States
  • Author Dave Barry
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ballantine Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
  • Date October 29, 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780345416605 / 0345416600
  • Weight 0.28 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.78 x 4.13 x 0.69 in (17.22 x 10.49 x 1.75 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 817

About the author

From 1983 to 2004, Dave Barry wrote a weekly humor column for The Miami Herald, which in 1988 won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He is the author of more than thirty books, including such bestsellers as the nonfiction Live Right and Find Happiness (Although Beer Is Much Faster), You Can Date Boys When You're Forty, and I'll Mature When I'm Dead; the novels Big Trouble, Tricky Business, and Insane City; the very successful YA Peter Pan novels (with Ridley Pearson); and his Christmas story The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog. Two of his books--Big Trouble and Dave Barry's Guide to Guys--have been turned into movies. For a while, his life was even a television series, Dave's World, but then it was canceled. The series. Not the life. For many years, Dave was also a guitarist with the late, infamous, and strangely unlamented band the Rock Bottom Remainders.
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