Dave Barry
Illustrated with 32 line drawings
A brilliantly funny exploration of the tumultuous years just past from
the Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist.
Thucydides, Gibbon, Tuchman, McCullough - to the names of the world's
great historians must now be added the name of Dave Barry, who has taken
a long, hard look at our new millennium (so far) and, when he stopped
hyperventilating, written it all down, because nobody would believe it
otherwise.
In November 2000, the skies darken over Florida as hundreds of thousands
of lawyers parachute into the state from bombers, while in 2002, the federal
budget surplus mysteriously disappears ("Everybody looks high and
low for it, but the darned thing is GONE!"). In April 2003, no WMD
have been found, but investigators do discover three barrels of lard,
described by US intelligence analysts as "a heart attack waiting
to happen," while in 2004, an already troubled nation receives an
even greater blow: the sight of Janet Jackson's exposed nipple. In 2005,
Katrina, Cindy, Harriet, Martha, Valerie, Paris, Michael Jackson - women
just got crazy that year - while in November 2006…well, something
happened, it'll come back to us.
PLUS, an extra added bonus - Dave Barry's complete history of the millennium
so recently (and unlamentedly) gone: Crusaders! Vikings! Peter Minuit's
purchase of Manhattan for $24, plus $167,000 a month in maintenance fees!
The invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci and of the computer by Charles
Babbage (who died in 1871 still waiting to talk to somebody from Technical
Support)!
Liberally illustrated with line drawings, filled with facts and commentary
that will amaze your friends and confound your enemies (yes, we mean you,
Osama!), this is the book that will finally earn Dave Barry his second
Pulitzer Prize. And about darned time, too.
Among Dave Barry's recent bestselling books are his novels Big Trouble
and Tricky Business; the nonfiction Dave Barry's Money Secrets; the two
Peter Pan prequels, written with Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers
and Peter and the Shadow Thieves; and his Christmas story The Shepherd,
the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog. He lives in Coral Gables,
Florida.