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Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

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Authors: The Onion, Scott Dikkers, Mike Loew
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book

List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 reviews
Sales Rank: 127548

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.5

ISBN: 0609804618
Dewey Decimal Number: 081
UPC: 045863804617
EAN: 9780609804612
ASIN: 0609804618

Publication Date: March 23, 1999
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Also Available In:

  • Audio Cassette - Our Dumb Century
  • Calendar - The Onion's Our Dumb Century 2001 Day-by-Day Calendar (The Onion)
  • Hardcover - Our Dumb Century (Running Press Miniature Editions)
  • Paperback - THE ONION PRESENTS OUR DUMB CENTURY
  • Hardcover - Our Dumb Century

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of The Onion, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of The Onion's mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:

A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"

AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion

Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"

Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says

And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since 1066 and All That--then Our Dumb Century is the one for you. --Ron Hogan

Product Description
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.

Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.



Customer Reviews:   Read 203 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars Book good, condition not good   March 29, 2008
 0 out of 2 found this review helpful

there was a wad of chewed gum stuck to the top of the pages, and the book as a whole was shrink wrapped. I am still disgusted.


4 out of 5 stars Tiny little book, fairly large price   December 14, 2007
 6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Smaller than a 3X5 card, it has a big book price. Hardbound, it'll last a while. History of the last 100 years. Cute gift idea. Decent read. Nothing extra special about it. Kind of gimmicky.


5 out of 5 stars The Best of The Onion Books   November 27, 2007
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I've read several of The Onion's books, and this one stands out as the funniest. A few of my favorite headlines: "Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons,"; "Stalin Announces Five-Year 'Everybody Dies' Plan"; and "World's Largest Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg". Hopefully we can all learn something from The Onion's version of history, or we'll be condemned to repeat it!



4 out of 5 stars Need to know some history   October 10, 2007
It sounds so incredibly good that you don't know sometimes if what they are saying is true or false. You really need a strong background in the subject on some of the information to get it.


5 out of 5 stars Bought this for my husband....   February 9, 2007
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

The bathroom reader.
He did enjoy this book. Especially the short entries.



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