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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
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Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) Hardcover - 2007

by Barry, Dave

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Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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  • Title Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
  • Author Barry, Dave
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
  • Date September 17, 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 13378954-75
  • ISBN 9780399154379 / 039915437X
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.8 x 0.95 in (20.47 x 14.73 x 2.41 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects History, American wit and humor
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007014131
  • Dewey Decimal Code 818.540

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Summary

Thucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough-to the names of the world's great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped hyperventilating, has written it all down, because nobody would believe it otherwise.In November 2000, the skies darken over Florida as hundreds of thousands of lawyers parachute into the state from bombers, while in 2002, the federal budget surplus mysteriously disappears ("Everybody looks high and low for it, but the darned thing is gone!"). In April 2003, no WMD have been found, but investigators do discover three barrels of lard, described by U.S. intelligence analysts as "a heart attack waiting to happen," while in 2004, an already troubled nation receives an even greater blow: the sight of Janet Jackson's exposed nipple. In 2005, Katrina, Cindy, Harriet, Martha, Valerie, Paris, Michael Jackson-women just got crazy that year-while in November 2006 . . . well, something happened; it'll come back to us.Plus, an extra added bonus-Dave Barry's complete history of the millennium so recently (and unlamentedly) gone: Crusaders! Vikings! Peter Minuit's purchase of Manhattan for $24, plus $167,000 a month in maintenance fees! The invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and of the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to somebody from Technical Support)!Liberally illustrated with line drawings, filled with facts and commentary that will amaze your friends and confound your enemies (yes, we mean you, Osama!), this is the book that will finally earn Dave Barry his second Pulitzer Prize. And about darned time, too.

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