The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody With Illustrations
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The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody With Illustrations
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Author : Will Cuppy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody With Illustrations written by Will Cuppy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.
The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody
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Author : Will Cuppy
language : en
Publisher: Godine+ORM
Release Date : 2008-10-01
The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody written by Will Cuppy and has been published by Godine+ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Humor categories.
A New York Times–bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist. So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there’s nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you’ll find Will Cuppy footloose in the footnotes of history. He transforms these luminaries into human beings, not as we knew them from history books, but as we would have known them Cuppy-wise: foolish, fallible, and very much our common ancestors. When it was first published in 1950, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spent four months on The New York Times bestseller list, and Edward R. Murrow devoted more than two-thirds of one of his nightly CBS programs to a reading from Cuppy’s historical sketches, calling it “the history book of the year.” The book eventually went through eighteen hardcover printings and ten foreign editions, proof of its impeccable accuracy and deadly, imperishable humor.
How To Become Extinct
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Author : Will Cuppy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
How To Become Extinct written by Will Cuppy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Humor categories.
Humorous essays poke fun at the natural world, extinct animals, pet snakes, and the noises of fish
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997
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Author : Piers Brendon
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-10-28
The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire 1781 1997 written by Piers Brendon and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-28 with History categories.
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.
If It S Not One Thing It S Your Mother
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Author : Julia Sweeney
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-04-08
If It S Not One Thing It S Your Mother written by Julia Sweeney and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being adopted by a dog, The Food Network, and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger. Some of the essays reveal Julia's ability to find that essential thread of human connection, whether it's with her mother-in-law or with an anonymous customer service rep during a late-night phone call. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.--From publisher description.
American Business A Two Minute Warning
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Author : Charles Jackson Grayson
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1988
American Business A Two Minute Warning written by Charles Jackson Grayson and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Business & Economics categories.
In less than two decades--about "two minutes" in world history time--Japan will succeed the U.S. as the world's economic leader, bringing Americans a lower standard of living, greater inflation and unemployment. Grayson and O'Dell submit ten changes managers must make to survive global competition.
Encyclopedia Of American Humorists
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Author : Steven H. Gale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Encyclopedia Of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Humor categories.
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Will Cuppy American Satirist
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Author : Wes D. Gehring
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-10-30
Will Cuppy American Satirist written by Wes D. Gehring and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s-early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884-1949). This factual funnyman's metier is dark comedy that flirts with nihilism. His agenda is baldly stated in such classic Cuppy book titles as How to Be a Hermit (1929), How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes (1931), and The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950). This biography doubles as a critical study of a satirist whose shish-kebabing of humanity was often done through the veiled anthropomorphic use of animals. For a biographer, Will Cuppy represents a treasure trove of possibilities. He was a great humorist, and most of his best work is still in print, but until now he has never been the subject of a book-length study. His mesmerizingly complex and eccentric private life almost trumps the comic accomplishments of his public persona.
Cbs S Don Hollenbeck
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Author : Loren Ghiglione
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011
Cbs S Don Hollenbeck written by Loren Ghiglione and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Loren Ghiglione recounts the fascinating life and tragic suicide of Don Hollenbeck, the controversial newscaster who became a primary target of McCarthyism's smear tactics. Drawing on unsealed FBI records, private family correspondence, and interviews with Walter Cronkite, Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood, Douglas Edwards, and more than one hundred other journalists, Ghiglione writes a balanced biography that cuts close to the bone of this complicated newsman and chronicles the stark consequences of the anti-Communist frenzy that seized America in the late 1940s and 1950s. Hollenbeck began his career at the Lincoln, Nebraska Journal (marrying the boss's daughter) before becoming an editor at William Randolph Hearst's rip-roaring Omaha Bee-News. He participated in the emerging field of photojournalism at the Associated Press; assisted in creating the innovative, ad-free PM newspaper in New York City; reported from the European theater for NBC radio during World War II; and anchored television newscasts at CBS during the era of Edward R. Murrow. Hollenbeck's pioneering, prize-winning radio program, CBS Views the Press (1947-1950), was a declaration of independence from a print medium that had dominated American newsmaking for close to 250 years. The program candidly criticized the prestigious New York Times, the Daily News (then the paper with the largest circulation in America), and Hearst's flagship Journal-American and popular morning tabloid Daily Mirror. For this honest work, Hollenbeck was attacked by conservative anti-Communists, especially Hearst columnist Jack O'Brian, and in 1954, plagued by depression, alcoholism, three failed marriages, and two network firings (and worried about a third), Hollenbeck took his own life. In his investigation of this amazing American character, Ghiglione reveals the workings of an industry that continues to fall victim to censorship and political manipulation. Separating myth from fact, CBS's Don Hollenbeck is the definitive portrait of a polarizing figure who became a symbol of America's tortured conscience.
The Rotarian
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960-09
The Rotarian written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960-09 with categories.
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.