Full name: Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

Author: Scott Dikkers Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Humor, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads

The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before. Similar books: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Stiff by Mary Roach Candyfreak by Steve Almond Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Gotham by Edwin G. Burrows Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki The Internal Enemy by Alan Taylor Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Local People by John Dittmer They Say in Harlan County by Alessandro Portelli Origins of the New South by C. Vann Woodward Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter An American Insurrection by William Doyle The Fall of Rome by Bryan Ward-Perkins