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A brilliantly funny look at the tumultuous recent past from the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
Remember when everything was going to go to hell when Y2K struck?
That didn't happen. Right?
But what did happen? To provide a little perspective on a really messed-up millennium (so far), the one and only Dave Barry slips into his historian's robe (it's plush terrycloth) and revisits the defining moments in our country's recent history-from the Bush years to-jeez, it's still the Bush years! As an added bonus, Barry quickly-we-re busy here-tosses in the complete history of the last millennium, covering crucial turning points such as the invention of the pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and the computer by Charles Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to tech support).
Fellow Americans, the time has come to bone up with Barry as he puts the hysterical in history.
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Duke Trana
reviewed Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far) on September 23, 2013
Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)
The first chapter of Dave Barry's millennial review is a hilarious, condensed chronicle of the previous thousand years (1000-1999 A.D.); wars, revolutions and cultural epochs swirl past in a kaleidoscope of muddled history. The ensuing chapters lampoon the media, politics and pop-culture of first eight years of our current millennium; these chapters are less inspired. Apparently there's more comic material in one thousand years than in eight and those subjects were already well-worn by a multitude of modern mockers by the time Barry's book got published.
But while the prolific jokester struggles to find comedic ground not covered by Leno, Letterman or Stewart, his wit makes this stroll through absurdity a quaint one. And you might just recall some Earth-shaking events from the recent past; remember the hullabaloo over Scooter Libby? (I hadn't.) How about Elian Gonzales? (Sadly, I had.) What about that time congress was super-dysfunctional? (Ha ha.) Barry makes all this silliness palatable, though it's hard to laugh when you're cringing.
Edited 12-17-2017
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