![]() ![]() ![]() Not recommended to grumps and grouches who have no sense of humor. Recommended to readers who think history is boring. Released in an updated third edition in April 2012. But hardly any! You probably won’t even notice them. Guaranteed free of those annoying split infinitives and dangling participles. With footnotes that are admittedly unnecessary, but how could we do without them? Passed by the grammar police. ![]() ![]() As Edgar Johnson said, "Satire is enjoyable compensation for being forced to think." This book is ideal for multitaskers who would like to laugh and learn at the same time. Lots of history here, between the laughs. These personages took part in real historical events: the Renaissance, the French Revolution, the Petticoat War, the Dreadful Decade, the porkless Thursdays of World War I. Is there a more entertaining way to learn history? This is nonfiction, fact-based satire. To understand them is to understand the world they created. Because historical personages were real people, as nutty as the rest of us. Sure it can be boring in the abstract, when seen in terms of political or economic isms, of territorial boundaries or dates or battles but on the human level, the up-close and personal level, it becomes a cavalcade of psychological case histories. This book proves that history can be fun, when viewed through the lives of the jokers who made it. ![]()
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