A Parody Outline of History edition by Donald Ogden Stewart Religion Spirituality eBooks
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A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps On a memorable evening in the year 1904 I witnessed the opening performance of Maude Adams in “Peter Pan”. Nothing in the world can describe the tremendous enthusiasm of that night! I shall never forget the moment when Peter came to the front of the stage and asked the audience if we believed in fairies. I am happy to say that I was actually the first to respond. Leaping at once out of my seat, I shouted “Yes— Yes!” To my intense pleasure the whole house almost instantly followed my example, with the exception of one man. This man was sitting directly in front of me. His lack of enthusiasm was to me incredible. I pounded him on the back and shouted, “Great God, man, are you alive! Wake up! Hurrah for the fairies! Hurrah!” Finally he uttered a rather feeble “Hurrah!” Childe Roland to the dark tower came. That was my first meeting with that admirable statesman Woodrow Wilson, and I am happy to state that from that night we became firm friends. When Mr. Wilson was inaugurated in 1913 I called on him at the White House, taking with me some members of my Yale drama class. Each one of us had an edition of the president’s admirable “History of the American People”, and I am glad to say that he was kind enough to autograph each of the ten volumes for all of us. Early in Mr. Wilson’s second term as president, just before the break with Germany, I was sitting in the quiet of my library rereading Browning’s “Cristina”. When I came to the third stanza I leaped to my feet— the thing seemed incredible, but here before my eyes was actually Browning’s prophetic message to America in regard to the submarine sinkings
A Parody Outline of History edition by Donald Ogden Stewart Religion Spirituality eBooks
This is possibly the third copy I have bought of this book over the years. It is achingly funny.Different episodes of American history are written up in the style of various popular authors of the past. It helps if the reader is passingly familiar with those authors, but not necessary to get the humor. For example, the story of the Boston Tea Party told in the style of Ring Lardner -- you don't really need to know Lardner to get a laugh out of a colonial rube in the city not only speaking a deformed type of Brooklynese, but actually writing in the same way ("Me and the missus is walking aroun givin the town the double O O.") And the story of the Whiskey Rebellion written as one of Thornton Burgess' Peter Rabbit-type stories is sheer brilliance ("And sure enough, when Old Mister Smoke had cleared away, there was a Revenue Officer lying as dead as you please on the ground!")
And so on and so on.
Get it if you can. It's a classic, it's brilliant, it's some of the funniest stuff you will ever read.
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A Parody Outline of History edition by Donald Ogden Stewart Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews
This is possibly the third copy I have bought of this book over the years. It is achingly funny.
Different episodes of American history are written up in the style of various popular authors of the past. It helps if the reader is passingly familiar with those authors, but not necessary to get the humor. For example, the story of the Boston Tea Party told in the style of Ring Lardner -- you don't really need to know Lardner to get a laugh out of a colonial rube in the city not only speaking a deformed type of Brooklynese, but actually writing in the same way ("Me and the missus is walking aroun givin the town the double O O.") And the story of the Whiskey Rebellion written as one of Thornton Burgess' Peter Rabbit-type stories is sheer brilliance ("And sure enough, when Old Mister Smoke had cleared away, there was a Revenue Officer lying as dead as you please on the ground!")
And so on and so on.
Get it if you can. It's a classic, it's brilliant, it's some of the funniest stuff you will ever read.
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