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ISBN-10: 0740768697
ISBN-13: 9780740768699
Edition: 2008
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Chris Regan, a former writer and comedian forThe Daily Show, has won five Emmys and two Peabodys. He coauthored theNew York Timesbest-sellerAmerica (The Book)and has enjoyed a varied career ranging from a kids' game show writer and stand-up comedian to pilot developer for 20th Century Fox and Comedy Central. He lives in Los Angeles. www.masshistoria.net "You can't change the past, but withMass Historia, Chris Regan has done a very fine job of making fun of it." --Stephen Colbert The History Channel meets Comedy Central in this sidesplitting, quasi-historical almanac by Daily Show writer and coauthor of Jon Stewart's bestsellingAmerica (The Book). Regan flips through our nation's historical… calendar to offer up unknown, unrepentant, and often-unbelievable facts for every day of the year. Based on genuine, historical occurrences, Regan sets out to rewrite history with his unique satirical voice. As Regan explains, "Enjoy this book, learn something from it, but do not reference it in any scholarly paper." Consider entries like June 12th, 1991: "Russians elect Boris Yeltsin president. Yeltsin suggests a toast to Democracy, wakes up shoeless on a bus eight years later." Or Regan's entry for May 15th, 1718: "A London Lawyer named James Puckle patents the world's first machine gun, because lawyering was not doing enough to crush the soul of mankind." The reader will also learn about the November 11th, 1918 birth of "Armistice Day, which was later changed to Veterans' Day, so that Americans could more easily pronounce what they annually ignored." Full-color photographs, along with amusing sidebars, lists, and mock historical images aid in providing definitive answers to historical curiosities such as, "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" or the similarities between music moguls Kevin Federline and Johann Sebastian Bach. Readers will even discover that Alexander G. Bell's famous cry of, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you," during the first telephone conversation was, in fact, the invention of the Booty Call.