Our Dumb Century: One Hundred Years of America’s Finest News Source
Author: Scott Dikkers
A fugitive Richard Nixon dies in a shootout with police in 1974; Al Capone’s reign of tax-evading terror is finally brought to an end in 1931; Michael Jackson melts to death during Barbara Walters TV Interview in 1987. What do these things have in common? They all take place in the twisted history of the 20th Century concocted by The Onion, the world’s most popular humor p….Read More
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