Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Alexandra Petri is a well-known political satirist in the US, known for her new book "U.S. History," which is a deranged timeline of the last 500 years, featuring John and Abigail Adams sexting, the March sisters being sixty feet tall, Nicola Tesla falling in love with a pigeon, and Susan Sontag going to summer camp.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 06 October 2023
Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri is undoubtedly America's most beloved political satirist. Her new, side-splitting work of historical humor employs imagined documents to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation's complicated past.

From the Spanish conquistadors to the Salem witch trials, from Paul Revere's ride to the exclamation mark in Oklahoma!, Alexandra Petri's U.S. History presents a deranged timeline in which John and Abigail Adams try sexting, the March sisters from Little Women are sixty feet tall, Nicola Tesla's friends stage an intervention when he falls in love with a pigeon, and Susan Sontag goes to summer camp. A witty, absurdist satire of the last 500 years, Petri's "historical fan fiction" showcases why she has been hailed as "genius,"* a "national treasure"** and "one of the funniest writers alive."

*Olivia Nuzzi, Katha Pollitt

**Julia Ioffe, Katy Tur, John Scalzi, Chuck Wendig, Jamil Smith, and Susan Hennessey

*** Randall Munroe

Weight: 466g
Dimension: 151 x 218 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781324006435