{"product_id":"9780997411737","title":"3 American Cranks: A Satire in Three Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerica is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? \u003cem\u003e3 American Cranks \u003c\/em\u003etakes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worse of the Land of the Free and the Homeless and, when that breathless ride comes to a sudden stop and you wobble away, you will be primed to give forth an opinion of your own on the matter, if you are not too dizzy.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThree eccentric American outsiders bare their souls and air their outlandish opinions about personal sanity in today's America gone haywire. A rollicking and irreverent, no-holds-barred satirical romp, bursting with American spunk and spirit, shying away neither from the underside nor the persistent promise of America.  \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLaughter rings out on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial when street preacher\/soapbox orator D. C. Washington steps up to transform the lunchtime crowd into his congregation and delivers a string of delightfully outrageous sermonettes on life and love in America under the reign of the One Percent.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMeanwhile at the rear of the congregation a shy, sex-starved college freshman is thrilled to discover that the distant brunette standing just inches away is, like him, holding a copy of Edgar Allan Poe's \u003cem\u003eThe Philosophy of Furniture\u003c\/em\u003e. So begins a madcap mix of all-in-their-heads courtship and all-out war between the sexes, interwoven with the witty truth-telling of D. C. Washington on race in America, Wall Street, Inequality, the disappearing Muddled Class, and the need to Declare Your Independence.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eOn his way to explaining why the black man is the only 100% American, the street preacher\/soapbox orator declares, \"Hello, my fellow slaves. We used to pick cotton now we pick dollars, and the necktie is the new shackle. My name is D. C. Washington, and I cannot tell a lie.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe college freshman confesses his titanic failures to break the ice with the opposing sex. \"The trouble with females is they are not thinking about sex all the time.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA young brunette of bristling intelligence lambasts the fraud of male superiority. \"Marriage? I refuse to spend my days as a trophy wife in a trophy case, gathering dust. I believe I can do more with my intelligence than pair socks.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PazziBoy Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118995554544,"sku":"9780997411737","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997411737_p0.jpg?v=1763956019","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997411737","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}