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Parody Outline of History, by Donald Ogden Stewart
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Title: A Parody Outline of History
Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
Posting Date: August 13, 2008 [EBook #1478] Release Date: October, 1998
Language: English
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A PARODY OUTLINE OF HISTORY
By Donald Ogden Stewart
Wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of AMERICAN HISTORICAL EVENTS Imagining them as they would be narrated by American's most characteristic contemporary authors
To
GILBERT HOLLAND STEWART, Jr.
Preface
Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volume endeavored to supply. And as American history can possibly best be written by Americans and as we have among us no H. G. Wells, I have imagined an American history as written conjointly by a group of our most characteristic literary figures.
Apologies are due the various authors whose style and, more particularly, whose Weltanschauung I have here attempted to reproduce; thanks are due The Bookman for permission to reprint such of these chapters as appear