A Parody Outline Of History [Illustrated]

This edition features
• 25 illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents

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

CONTENTS
Preface
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: A Critical Survey of American History In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps
CHAPTER II CRISTOFER COLOMBO: A Comedy of Discovery In the Manner of James Branch Cabell
CHAPTER III MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass In the Manner of Sinclair Lewis
CHAPTER IV THE COURTSHIP OF, MILES STANDISH In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald
CHAPTER V THE SPIRIT OF '75: Letters of a Minute Man In the Manner of Ring Lardner
CHAPTER VI THE WHISKY REBELLION In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton W. Burgess
CHAPTER VII HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT In the Manner of Harold Bell Wright
CHAPTER VIII CUSTER'S LAST STAND In the Manner of Edith Wharton
CHAPTER IX FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD: A Drama of the Great War Act I — In the Manner of Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews Act 2 — In the Manner of Eugene O'Neill