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| View Larger Image | Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source
by The Onion, Scott Dikkers, Mike Loew
| | List Price: | $16.95 | | Price: | $11.53 | | You Save: | $5.42 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 56797 | | Studio: | Three Rivers Press | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 176 | | Publication Date: | March 23, 1999 | | Publisher: | Three Rivers Press |
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Product Description
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.
Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before. |
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Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines: 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 |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 208 reviews)
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Book good, condition not good 
there was a wad of chewed gum stuck to the top of the pages, and the book as a whole was shrink wrapped. I am still disgusted.
March 29, 2008 | |
Tiny little book, fairly large price 
Smaller than a 3X5 card, it has a big book price. Hardbound, it'll last a while. History of the last 100 years. Cute gift idea. Decent read. Nothing extra special about it. Kind of gimmicky.
December 14, 2007 | |
The Best of The Onion Books 
I've read several of The Onion's books, and this one stands out as the funniest. A few of my favorite headlines: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons,"; "Stalin Announces Five-Year 'Everybody Dies' Plan"; and "World's Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg". Hopefully we can all learn something from The Onion's version of history, or we'll be condemned to repeat it!
November 27, 2007 | |
Need to know some history
It sounds so incredibly good that you don't know sometimes if what they are saying is true or false. You really need a strong background in the subject on some of the information to get it.
October 10, 2007 | |
Bought this for my husband....
The bathroom reader.
He did enjoy this book. Especially the short entries.
February 09, 2007 | |
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