Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

Author: Dave Barry
Year: 2001
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 1.6
Genres/categories: Humor, Non Fiction, Politics

Purchase/research links:
Just in time, Dave Barry supplies the wholly original, much needed history and guide to the new American politics and its three capitals, Washington, D.C., Austin, and South Florida. No surprise: it's hilarious.

Understanding the urgent need for a deeply thoughtful balanced book to explain our national political process, Dave Barry has not even come close. Though he himself has covered many campaigns, run for President several times, and run for cover at the rainy inauguration of George W. Bush (the man will spare nothing for his art) Barry has instead outdone himself.

Below the Beltway includes Barry's stirring account of how the United States was born, including his version of a properly rewritten Declaration (When in the course of human events it behooves us, the people, not to ask "What can our country do for us, anyway?" but rather whether we have anything to fear except fear itself...) and a revised Constitution (Section II: The House of Representatives shall be composed of people who own at least two dark suits and have not been indicted recently.).

Dave also cracks the income tax code, explains the growth(s) of government, congressional hearing difficulties, and the persistent rumors of the influence of capital in the Capitol. Among other civic contributions, his tour of Washington, D.C., should end school class trips forever.


From the Hardcover edition.
Similar books:

George W. Bushisms
by Jacob Weisberg

The Rant Zone
by Dennis Miller

The New New Rules
by Bill Maher

How to Rule the World
by Andre de Guillaume

All the Trouble in the World
by P. J. O'Rourke

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut
by P. J. O'Rourke

Bad President
by James Friedman

Dave Barry Turns 50
by Dave Barry

Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary
by Jeff Foxworthy

The Book of Heroic Failures
by Stephen Pile

Republican Party Reptile
by P. J. O'Rourke

Dave Barry is not Taking this Sitting Down!
by Dave Barry

The rants
by Dennis Miller

New Rules
by Bill Maher

The Return of Heroic Failures
by Stephen Pile

The World According to Dave Barry
by Dave Barry

Dave Barry's Gift Guide to End All Gift Guides
by Dave Barry

Dave Barry is Not Making This Up
by Dave Barry

Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
by Dave Barry

Live Right and Find Happiness
by Dave Barry