America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
Author: Jon Stewart
From Publishers WeeklyCheeky, irreverent and playfully ingenuous, this abbreviated history of democracy is everything one would expect from the writers of Comedy Central’s fake news program, which recently (and somewhat scandalously) won the Television Critics Association’s award for outstanding news and public affairs series. The book is laid out like a textbook, with “Di….Read More
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