America: A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction

Unknown, Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum, Ben Karlin

Category: Humor

Tags: Humor

Cheeky, irreverent and playfully ingenuous, this abbreviated history of democracy is everything one would expect from the writers of Comedy Centrals fake news program, which recently (and somewhat scandalously) won the Television Critics Associations award for outstanding news and public affairs series. The book is laid out like a textbook, with Discussion Questions (Why do you think the Framers made the Constitution so soul-crushingly boring?), Classroom Activities (Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! Youre Antonin Scalia!) and plenty of amusing graphics, including a board game that resembles the game Life but which follows a presidential term: Optimistic press release on economy ineffective. Spin again. No one evades the authors scrutiny, not even the Pilgrims, who came to America to escape religious persecution create a society where they could worship as they pleased and one day, God willing, even do some persecuting of their own. The media fares the