{"id":13798,"date":"2004-12-10T18:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/publishers-weekly-book-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T18:17:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T18:17:00","slug":"publishers-weekly-book-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/publishers-weekly-book-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Publisher&#8217;s Weekly Book Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0446532681\/andrewchorney\" title=\"amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"America (The Book)\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/americathebook.jpg\" \/><\/a>When I heard that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/tv_shows\/thedailyshowwithjonstewart\/book.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart and <i>The Daily Show<\/i> writers had come out with the book<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0446532681\/andrewchorney\" title=\"amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>America (The Book): A Citizen&rsquo;s Guide To Democracy Inaction<\/i><\/a>, I had high hopes, and I was not disappointed.  It&rsquo;s a hilarious satirical look at American history and government written in the style of a high-school textbook.  It is a bit sad that so much of the satirical content is not all that far from the truth, though&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy to hear that the book was named as &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A39357-2004Dec6.html?nav=headlines\" target=\"_blank\">book of the year by <i>Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/a>, the trade publication of the book industry.&rdquo;  I wonder whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/10\/21\/entertainment\/main650663.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Wal-Mart will reconsider banning the book<\/a> from its store shelves now (they still offer it online).  On second thought, probably not.  I guess showing all of the Supreme Court Justices nude was a bit much.  If only I were making that up&hellip; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-110261422353338370?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I heard that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show writers had come out with the book America (The Book): A Citizen&rsquo;s Guide To Democracy Inaction, I had high hopes, and I was not disappointed. It&rsquo;s a hilarious satirical look at American history and government written in the style of a high-school textbook. It is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/10\/publishers-weekly-book-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publisher&#8217;s Weekly Book Of The Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}