DAVE
BARRY
SLEPT
HERE " A Sort of History
of the United States " Hardback book with Dust Jacket by Dave Barry Over 175 pages Copyright © 1989 by Dave Barry Maps copyright © 1989 by Anita Karl and Jim Kemp " This is history without the dull parts.
This is history with only one date to remember.
This is history with a lot of white space.
From the buffalo who roamed, their hooves thundering like, we don't know, thunder or something ... onward, this is instant, very up historical writing for readers who tire easily after all that lip-moving. " Contents includes: " Introduction ONE Deflowering a Virgin Continent TWO Spain Gets Hot THREE England Starts Some Fun Colonies FOUR The Colonies Develop a Life-style FIVE The Birthing Contractions of a Nation SIX Kicking Some British Butt SEVEN The Forging of a Large, Wasteful Bureaucracy EIGHT A Brash Young Nation Gets into Wars and Stuff NINE Barging Westward TEN The Civil War: A Nation Pokes Itself in the Eyeball ELEVEN The nation Enters Chapter Eleven TWELVE Groping Toward Empire THIRTEEN Deep International Doo-doo FOURTEEN A Nation Gets Funky FIFTEEN Severe Economic Bummerhood SIXTEEN Major Nonhumorous Events Occur SEVENTEEN International Tension City EIGHTEEN The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death NINETEEN The Sixties: A Nation Gets High and Has Amazing Insights,
Some of Which Later On Turn Out to Seem Kind of Stupid TWENTY The Seventies: A Relieved Nation Learns That It Does Not Actually
Need a President TWENTY-ONE The Reagan-Bush Years: Napping Toward Glory Index " This book is in good to very good condition with some wear to the dust jacket.
There are some blue stains on the inside of the dust jacket as well as along the side edges of the pages.
No torn or ripped pages.
No other markings or writing. | 
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