American Satire
This entertaining, informative collection covers the best of American satire—from Ben Franklin's cutting satiric attacks to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Celestial Railroad, Calvin Trillin's Old Marrieds, Mark Twain's American Abroad to P.J. O'Rourke's The Innocents Abroad—Updated, a late 20th-century take on Twain's classic piece. "Entertaining and satisfying...An excellent introduction."—Amazon.com.
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Preface Introduction\ Thomas Morton (ca. 1590-ca. 1647)\ New English Canaan\ Ebenezer Cook (fl. 1708)\ The Sot-Weed Factor Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791)\ A Pretty Story\ Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)\ On Sending Felons to America The Sale of the Hessians Model of a Letter of Recommendation Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada\ Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756)\ The Tuesday Club\ Philip Freneau (1752-1832)\ The British Prison Ship\ Hugh Brackenridge (1748-1816)\ Modern Chivalry\ Washington Irving (1783-1859)\ Tales of a Traveler\ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)\ The Celestial Railroad\ Fanny Fern (1811-1872)\ Have We Any Men Among Us?\ Tom Pax's Conjugal Soliloquy To Gentlemen Has a Mother a Right to Her Children?\ Fresh Leaves A Chapter for Parents\ James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)\ The Biglow Papers\ Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)\ The Devil's Dictionary\ Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)\ Mr. Dooley\ Mark Twain (1835-1910)\ Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses A Helpless Situation Advice to Youth The Art of Inhumation (from Life on the Mississippi)\ American in Europe (from A Tramp Abroad)\ The War Prayer\ George Ade (1866-1944)\ The Sultan of Sulu\ Stephen Crane (1871-1900)\ A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices War Is Kind\ Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904)\ How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded\ Edith Wharton (1862-1937)\ Xingu Expiation\ H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)\ Rondo on an Ancient Theme\ Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)\ A Letter from the Queen\ Will Rogers (1879-1935)\ A Day at the Republican Convention At the Democratic Convention\ Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)\ Words, Words, Words Far From Well Comment One Perfect Rose\ James Thurber (1894-1961)\ Tom, the Young Kidnapper\ Langston Hughes (1902-1967)\ Ballad of the Landlord Ku Klux American Heartbreak\ Kurt Vonnegut (1922- )\ In a Manner That Must Shame God Himself\ Russell Baker (1925- )\ Universal Military Motion\ Art Buchwald (1925- )\ Pictures from Vietnam Telling the Truth\ Gore Vidal (1925- )\ Ronnie and Nancy: A Life in Picture\ Calvin Trillin (1935- )\ Old Marrieds\ P. J. O'Rourke (1947- )\ The Innocents Abroad, Updated\ Molly Ivins (1944- )\ H. Ross Went Seven Bubbles Off Plumb (and Other Tales)\ New Heights of Piffle
