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The McSweeney's Book of Politics and Musicals (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Ever since John Hancock broke into song after signing the Declaration of Independence, American politics and musicals have been inextricably linked. From Alexander Hamilton's jazz hands, to Chester A. Arthur's oboe operas, to Newt Gingrich's off-Broadway sexscapade, You, Me, and My Moon Colony Mistress Makes Three, government and musical theater have joined forces to document our nation's long history of freedom, partisanship, and dancers on roller skates pretending to be choo choo trains. To celebrate this grand union of entrenched bureaucracy and song, the patriots at McSweeney's Internet Tendency ("The Iowa Caucus of humor websites") offer this riotous collection (peacefully assembled!) of monologues, charts, scripts, lists, diatribes, AND musicals written by the noted fake-musical lyricist, Ben Greenman. On the agenda are . . . Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL Barack Obama's Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Financial Crisis Your Attempts to Legislate Hunting Man for Sport Reek of Class Warfare A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable Donald Rumsfeld Memoir Chapter Title Or German Heavy Metal Song? Noises Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals and Not Political Pundits Ron Paul Gives a Guided Tour of His Navajo Art Collection Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, As Told to Me By My Father And much more!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307948632
• Artikelnr.: 39206872

Autorenporträt

McSweeney's is a publishing company based in San Francisco. As well as running the daily humor website McSweeney's Internet Tendency, McSweeney's publishes McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, the Believer, Lucky Peach, Wholphin, Grantland Quarterly, and an ever-growing selection of books under various imprints.

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FOREWORD
Wyatt Cenac
My America: A New Action Movie Screenplay by Sarah Palin
Wendy Molyneux
Presidential Stats
Simon Rich
From the Diary of John Adams
Peter Krinke
An Anti-Washington Candidate's Stump Speech
Pete Reynolds
My 1-1-1-1-1-1-1 Plan
Ellie Kemper
Where Is the Rest of This Graph?
Ben Greenman
The Only Thing That Can Stop This Asteroid Is Your Liberal Arts Degree
Mike Lacher
Debate for Emperor of the Upsilon Sigma Star System
Teddy Wayne
Vote Yes on SPLOST 5
Lucas Klauss
Barack Obama's Undersold 2012 Campaign Slogans
Nathaniel Lozier
A Comprehensive List of Third- Place Finishers for U.S. President,
2008-2036
David Warnke
The Lesser-Known Slogans of Political Moderates
Kate Johansen and Katie Bukowski
Three Timelines of the American Financial Meltdown Told Through R. L. Stine
Book Titles
Matthew Gillespie
Fragments from BAILOUT! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
Political Decision-Making in the New Century
Sean Carman
Former CIA Director George Tenet's Other Excuses
Christopher Monks
A Message from a TSA Full-Body Scanner
Jesse Adelman
A Guest Columnist Still Getting the Hang of It
Ellie Kemper
Extended Trailer for American Demographic 2012
Pete Reynolds
Your Attempts to Legislate Against Hunting Man for Sport Reek of Class
Warfare
Mike Lacher
Little Housing Crisis on the Prairie
Susan Schorn
Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Financial Crisis
Jeremiah Tucker
Noises That Select Political Pundits Would Make If They Were Wild Animals
Instead of Political Pundits
John Warner
Donald Rumsfeld: Love Doctor
Stephen Elliott
Parallels Between My Living Through Two Years of Middle School and the Two
Terms of George W. Bush's Presidency
Teddy Wayne
Republican S&M Safe Words
Nathan Pensky
Fragments from WEINER! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
Someday My Concession Speech Will Be Read by Schoolchildren
Jim Stallard
Starting Over with Pat Nixon
Tom Gliatto
How You Voted
Jonathan Stern
30 and Pregnant
Rachel Friedman
I'm Afraid the Children Are Our Future
John Moe
How Superior Each Bar Feels to the Others
Ben Greenman
Classic Nursery Rhymes, Updated and Revamped for the Recession, as Told to
Me by My Father
Jen Statsky
The Adventures of Right- Wing Conservative Robin Hood
Sarah Rosenshine
Two Medieval Physicians Debate Universal Health Care
Blair Becker
The Twenty-First Century Adventures of Tintin
Neil Graf
Youth Culture Findings
Dan Kennedy
April Fools' Day Pranks to Play on an Unemployed Twentysomething Male Who
Still Lives at Home with His Parents
Christopher Monks
Your Protest Signs Are Too Specific
Alan Trotter
Less Powerful Industry Lobbying Groups
Todd Rovak
Fragments from PALIN! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
Marxist- Socialist Jokes
Jesse Eisenberg
What If Germany Won the War?
Mike Sacks
Metroid 's Samus Aran Speaks Out About Gay Marriage
Marco Kaye
Abstinence-Only Driver's Ed
Suzanne Kleid
A 1980s Teen Sex Comedy Becomes Politically Uncomfortable
Andrew Golden
For a Yellow Brick Wall
Mike Gallagher
The Stability of Data
Ben Greenman
How Bernanke Tackled the Depression, As Recorded 150 Years from Now by
Post-Apocalyptic Hobo Folklorists
Grant Munroe
Ron Paul Gives a Guided Tour of His Navajo Art Collection
Jeremiah Tucker
Tribal Matters
Jim Stallard
Early Drafts of Patrick Henry's Revolutionary Proclamation "Give Me Liberty
or Give Me Death!"
Sam Weiner
Unpublished Federalist Papers
Maggie Ryan Sandford
Crate & Barrel Tableware Style+U.S. President=Fictional Delta Blues Singer
Josh Michtom
Patriotic Laundry Metaphors
Doogie Horner
Quiz: Rumsfeld Memoir Chapter Title or German Heavy Metal Song?
David Rees
The Next Wave: Candidate Product Placement
Pete Reynolds
Occupy Main Street!
Teddy Wayne
Operation Middle Class: A Fearful Rich Man's Rules for Survival in an
Increasingly Populist World
Luke Kelly-Clyne
I Will
Henry Alford
Word Problems for Future Hedge Fund Managers
Bob Woodiwiss
Mom's and Dad's Campaign Statements
Gregory Beyer
I Probably Shouldn't Have Opted for the Cheapest HMO
Jim Stallard
Presidents Who Could Also Be Strippers
Noel Wood
State Rules
Colin Perkins
Great Quotes from the End of NASA's Space Shuttle Era
Jim Santel
Things JFK Might Ask You to Ask Not Today
Kate Hahn
The Songs of Lenin and McCarthy
Jimmy Chen
Fragments from WIKILEAKS! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
The Elements of Press Release Style
Gary Klien
Which Flavor of Ice Cream Do You Want, Daddy?
Miles Kahn
Aesop's Fables Teach Children the Art of Voter Suppression
Andrew Golden
This Recession Has Spared No One, Not Even the Mythical and Folkloric
Figures of Our Collective Western Imagination
Henry Alford and Ryan Haney
POLL: Do I Fully Understand the Concept of Margin of Error?
Ben Greenman
A Letter from the U.S. Department of Education Regarding the Birth of Your
First Child
Mark Brownlow
Important Details About Your New Health Care Plan
Dan Kennedy
Robert Gibbs's Dungeons & Dragons Game Goes Off the Rails
Travis Watt
The Labors of Unemployed Hercules
Luke Burns
Templates to the Editor
Bob Woodiwiss
Slightly Less-Cited Supreme Court Decisions
Rob Kutner
Archaic U.S. Senate Procedures
Lucas Klauss
Congressional Missed Connections
Sloan Schang
Chapter Titles for Rachel Carson's 1962 Book Silent Spring That Were
Rejected for Being Too Alarmist
Caredwen Foley
Fragments from HOT PLANET! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
Recycle, Compost, or Trash? A Guide
Jenny Shank
Pickman's Chicken Farm Is Now Cruelty-Free
Zack Poitras
Create Your Own Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Column
Michael Ward
The Gahhh! Institute
Lucas Klauss
Eyewitness News with Tom Denardo and Cheryl Clayburn
Seth Reiss
How Much I Had to Manipulate the Data to Make It Seem Like Things Were
Looking Up
Ben Greenman
Little-Known Facts from the Guinness Book of World Records
Simon Rich
Ongoing Roadblocks in the Mongoose-Cobra Peace Talks
Bob Woodiwiss
The Girls of The Hills Visit Afghanistan
Wendy Molyneux
David Brooks Also Eats Cereal
John Warner
A Straw Poll of Issues on Voters' Minds for This Upcoming Election, Based
Only on the Conversation Initiations of the Morose Security Guard Who Sits
in the Lobby of the Building Where I Work
Ryan Haney
Photo Ops to Gain More Than 50% of the Electorate
David Hart
Dance Dance Revolution
Matthew Bonnan
Actual Subject Lines of E-mails I've Received from Barack Obama's Campaign
That Sound Like He's Asking Me Out and Then Breaking Up with Me
Sarah Walke
Fragments from SANTORUM! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman
Spreading the Good Word: A Missionary's Guide
Wendy Molyneux
The 700 Club Does the Weather
Alex Kane
The First American Bidding War
Susan Schorn
The Front Porch Campaign, 1880
Chris White
Perhaps Now You Wish You Had Paid Closer Attention to Your Judicial
Candidates for County Circuit Court!
Mike Lacher
Ordinary Circle or Pie Chart?
Ben Greenman
This Is a Reelection Campaign Stop, Not a Labor Day Weekend Beach Vacation
Ryan Haney
Laura Wingfi eld from The Glass Menagerie on the 2012 Republican
Presidential Candidates
Kate Hahn
No Country for Anyone
John Warner
The Latest Deals from LivingCapitalist
Pete Reynolds
Voter Segments to Watch This Year
Sloan Schang
Accusations Leveled At a Dolphin Running for President
Eric Feezell
God Texts the Ten Commandments
Jamie Quatro
New Fears for the Twenty-First Century
Hannah Tepper
Fragments from STRONG GOVERNMENT! THE MUSICAL
Ben Greenman