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"Is the comedy of Stephen Colbert simply fun or is it powerful political satire? Does it entertain viewers or does it empower them? Or does it teach us that in today's media-saturated world those binaries make no sense? America According to Colbert: Satire as Public Pedagogy claims that Colbert's satire fosters critical thinking about social issues, encourages active citizenship, and entertains the viewer--all at the same time. The first book to cover...
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Covering subjects ranging from healthcare to the economy to food, Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.
The political satirist, comedian, and host of "The Colbert Report" puts his signature humorous spin on healthcare, the economy, and food, promising that this book will singlehandedly fix an America that is broken and has lost its way.
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In the period of the American Revolution the colonies as a whole awakened to literary self-consciousness for the first time. Although native drama was still in its infancy and fiction not yet born, the literature of these years, surveyed by Moses Coit Tyler in his still valuable "Literary History of the American Revolution", reveals vigor and excellence throughout a wide range of genres familiar to the eighteenth century. An essential branch of this...
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"What, you may ask, is easygoing, noncommital (except when it comes to food) Calvin Trillin doing at The Nation, that most earnest and austere of political journals? Well, he's not writing political humor--not really; no, he's just having chiefly non-partisan fun in a political neighborhood, and so will readers of these 50 short columns from 1978-81."--
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