'''''America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction''''' (ISBN 0446532681) is a 2004 humor book written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, and other writers of the ''The Daily Show''. Karlin is the show's executive producer and Javerbaum its head writer. The book is written as a parody of a United States high school civics textbook, complete with study guides, questions, and class exercises. Its inside front cover is even "stamped" with a template with the heading "THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF" and lines within a section marked "ISSUED TO" where the reader could write his or her name, the year, and the condition of the book when issued and when returned. It pokes fun at the Politics of the United States, and includes a chapter caricaturing American views of the rest of the world. Appearing shortly before the U.S. presidential election, 2004, the book includes several pages of an "Election Guide" making fun of both candidates. Printings of the book made after the elections do not have this insert. ''Publishers Weekly'' (PW) chose it as its "Book of the Year"; it noted that "in a year defined by political polemics, it seems fitting that PW's Book of the Year be one in which the authors survey the entire political system and laugh." The audio book version won the Grammy_Awards_of_2005#Comedy in 2005 for "Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album." The book, published in September 2004, remained a best seller even after the election, despite a decision by Wal-Mart to cancel its order because, as a spokewoman was quoted in ''USA Today'': "We felt a majority of our customers would not be comfortable with the image" [of naked List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States]. The book was also banned from some Mississippi public library for its depictions of nude Supreme Court Justices. The ban was later lifted after the library board received complaints. [http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/10617771.htm] Chapter 5 on judiciary includes obviously doctored photographs of the current justices, with their heads superimposed on appropriately aged naked bodies. On the page opposite the photographs, the reader is invited to "Restore their dignity" by covering each justice with a cutout of his or her robe. == Table of Contents == *Study Guide *Foreword: by Thomas Jefferson *Ch. 1: Democracy Before America *Ch. 2: The Founding of America *Ch. 3: The President: King of Democracy *Ch. 4: Congress: Quagmire of Freedom *Ch. 5: The Judicial Branch: It Rules *Ch. 6: Campaigns and Elections: America Changes the Sheets *Ch. 7: The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians *Ch. 8: The Future of Democracy: Four Score and Seven Years from Now *Ch. 9: The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors *Afterword *Acknowledgments *Credits *Election 2004 (bonus section not listed in Table of Contents and not included in post-election printings) ==External links== * ''[http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/book.jhtml America (The Book)]'', official site * [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-10-19-stewart-book_x.htm Behind the robes, Stewart finds controversy], an October 2004 article from ''USA Today'' 2004 books Parodies The Daily Show Controversial books
The full title being rather unwieldy, let's stick with the abbreviated version that everybody knows. I also note that ''America (The Book)'' is what is used in the book to refer to itself. User:Stan Shebs 16:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I agree. - User:MattTM | User_talk:MattTM 20:52, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC) == Dead link == The second link down, to the Reuters story, appears to be 404. Anyone have a good version of the story? User:Turnstep 22:19, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
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'''''America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction''''' (ISBN 0446532681) is a 2004 humor book written and edited by Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum, and other writers of the ''The Daily Show''. Karlin is the show's executive producer and Javerbaum its head writer. The book is written as a parody of a United States high school civics textbook, complete with study guides, questions, and class exercises. Its inside front cover is even "stamped" with a template with the heading "THIS BOOK IS THE PROPERTY OF" and lines within a section marked "ISSUED TO" where the reader could write his or her name, the year, and the condition of the book when issued and when returned. It pokes fun at the Politics of the United States, and includes a chapter caricaturing American views of the rest of the world. Appearing shortly before the U.S. presidential election, 2004, the book includes several pages of an "Election Guide" making fun of both candidates. Printings of the book made after the elections do not have this insert. ''Publishers Weekly'' (PW) chose it as its "Book of the Year"; it noted that "in a year defined by political polemics, it seems fitting that PW's Book of the Year be one in which the authors survey the entire political system and laugh." The audio book version won the Grammy_Awards_of_2005#Comedy in 2005 for "Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album." The book, published in September 2004, remained a best seller even after the election, despite a decision by Wal-Mart to cancel its order because, as a spokewoman was quoted in ''USA Today'': "We felt a majority of our customers would not be comfortable with the image" [of naked List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States]. The book was also banned from some Mississippi public library for its depictions of nude Supreme Court Justices. The ban was later lifted after the library board received complaints. [http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/10617771.htm] Chapter 5 on judiciary includes obviously doctored photographs of the current justices, with their heads superimposed on appropriately aged naked bodies. On the page opposite the photographs, the reader is invited to "Restore their dignity" by covering each justice with a cutout of his or her robe. == Table of Contents == *Study Guide *Foreword: by Thomas Jefferson *Ch. 1: Democracy Before America *Ch. 2: The Founding of America *Ch. 3: The President: King of Democracy *Ch. 4: Congress: Quagmire of Freedom *Ch. 5: The Judicial Branch: It Rules *Ch. 6: Campaigns and Elections: America Changes the Sheets *Ch. 7: The Media: Democracy's Valiant Vulgarians *Ch. 8: The Future of Democracy: Four Score and Seven Years from Now *Ch. 9: The Rest of the World: International House of Horrors *Afterword *Acknowledgments *Credits *Election 2004 (bonus section not listed in Table of Contents and not included in post-election printings) ==External links== * ''[http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart/book.jhtml America (The Book)]'', official site * [http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-10-19-stewart-book_x.htm Behind the robes, Stewart finds controversy], an October 2004 article from ''USA Today'' 2004 books Parodies The Daily Show Controversial books
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The full title being rather unwieldy, let's stick with the abbreviated version that everybody knows. I also note that ''America (The Book)'' is what is used in the book to refer to itself. User:Stan Shebs 16:31, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) :I agree. - User:MattTM | User_talk:MattTM 20:52, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC) == Dead link == The second link down, to the Reuters story, appears to be 404. Anyone have a good version of the story? User:Turnstep 22:19, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
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