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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book)
A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart And The Writers Of The Daily Show

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TV:

• The Colbert Report

• Jon Stewart Fan Site
• Official Publisher Site
• The Daily Show

The writing staff behind Comedy Central's popular fake news program makes its first foray into the world of fake publishing with this primer on American government, fashioned as a textbook complete with discussion questions and classroom activities.

Warner Books, 240 pages
09/20/2004
$24.95

ISBN: 0446532681

Nonfiction
Current Events & Politics
Humor

All reviews are classified as one of five grades: Outstanding (4 points), Favorable (3), Mixed (2), Unfavorable (1) and Terrible (0). To calculate the Metascore, we divide total points achieved by the total points possible (i.e., 4 x the number of reviews), with the resulting percentage (multiplied by 100) being the Metascore. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

America (The Book) is, without a doubt, the most ecumenical, evenhanded, and hilarious political satire since The Onion's Our Dumb Century.

Publishers Weekly

This humourous sendup of American politics never fails to entertain, poke fun and provoke thought. [6 Sep 2004, p.59]

San Francisco Chronicle David Kipen

A wickedly funny civics textbook that could keep even the most attention-deficient class clown from tuning out.

The New York Times Janet Maslin

'America'' can be opened at random, the way it will bein college dormitories when it becomes much loved and indispensable. But it can also be read straight through, thanks to sustained clever writing and a smart, durable premise.

The New York Times Book Review Tom Carson

As with ''The Daily Show'' itself, the book's artfulness is in maintaining a balance between pointed satire of the political travesties and media bamboozling Americans should be fed up with and the sort of sublime silliness that implies equanimity.

The Onion A.V. Club Donna Bowman

The secret ingredient is point of view, and even, at times, a flash of partisan passion.

Village Voice Joy Press

Like most Daily Show content, this stuff is thoroughly satirical yet could serve as a decent substitute for civics class in this underfunded No Child Left Behind era.

Washington Post Warren Bass

It's not quite as funny as the show, though.

Daily Telegraph Sam Leith

Like the Daily Show, it's slick, very funny, and slyly informative.

The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Geoff Heinricks

America (The Book) owes much to the spirit and look of the classic late 1970s and early '80s issues of National Lampoon, and its earlier high school yearbook and Sunday newspaper parodies.

Chicago Sun-Times Henry Kisor

America (The Book) will remind you of a Mel Brooks movie -- stretches of excruciatingly juvenile humor interspersed with brilliant satire.

Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves

A bitingly funny look at American politics.

The average user rating for this book is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Michael R gave it a10:
Absolutely hilarious! Every page of this book is laugh out loud funny. Maybe the funniest book I have ever read and it certainly was worth every penny.

Mike G. gave it a10:
This book is laugh out loud, ridiculously funny. The juxtaposition of modern, idiomatic language and historical figures (real or imagined) is a winner.

Joyce T gave it a9:
I received it as a gift, and it is very funny. I particularly liked the discussion questions and classroom activities.

Chris H gave it a10:
This book is severely underrated. There are jokes everywhere; it is easy to overlook the jokes in the index and in the liner notes, etc... Granted, some are immature, but that merely takes advantage of the ironic appearance of lewd jokes in a history textbook. Besides, there is more than enough satirical but insightful truth in the book to satisfy any appreciative reader.

Elizabeth P gave it a4:
Disappointing. I love the "Daily Show" and Jon Stewart but the book didn't live up to the hype. There are 3 or 4 funny pages the rest of the humor is lame and forced. A ho-hum book is not worth the $20. If you don't read this book, you'll still retain some respect for Jon Stewart. You're not missing much!!!!!!!!!

Eric K gave it a10:
Very insightful, very funny

David F gave it a3:
I love the Daily Show, hated the book. It was a gift, I would not have bought it if I flipped through it in a bookstore: it does not get any better/worse after the first 5 minutes. Nobody in my house stayed with it.

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