Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway: A Vicious and Unprovoked Attack on Our Most Cherished Political Institutions - Hardcover

Barry, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037550219X ISBN 13: 9780375502194

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2001

Synopsis

The ever popular boomer humorist ties up the gloves to go a few rounds with American politics as he updates the Declaration of Independence, revises the Constitution, swipes at the tax code, and roasts the current administration with all the slow-simmering heat of a Texas barbecue. 150,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Dave Barry was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for being, as The New York Times said, "the funniest man in America." His home paper is the Miami Herald; his syndicate services hundreds of other newspapers. (This book is all original, not a collection of columns.) He lives, by no coincidence, in Florida.

From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

, 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 Re

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 037550219X
• ISBN 13: 9780375502194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180