{"product_id":"9781934757642","title":"Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream","description":"\"An Underground Best-Seller\" - \"Animal Farm for 21st Century Politics\" - What would happen if Alice, of Wonderland fame, were dropped into a political system where the government runs every aspect of life? You would have Alice in Blunderland, a 1907 classic, brought back to life-with even more meaning for our modern times. Join Alice as she explores a city where: The town has an official beggar-who is on government salary. - Boys are required to dance with homely girls-or get arrested. - They have the safest, most fuel-efficient, mass transit system in the world-because it doesn't go anywhere. - Teeth are public property. - The Commissioner of Public Verse has 16,743 poets working for him-and words that don't rhyme are made to rhyme by civic decree. - And, the official government monetary policy is expressed as follows: We promise to pay \/ This bond some day \/ If of the stuff \/ We've got enough. \/ And if we haven't, pray don't despond, \/ For we'll pay it off with another bond. - \"This would be one of the funniest political satires I've ever read-if it weren't so close to current reality.\"","brand":"Fireship Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47059485196528,"sku":"9781934757642","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934757642_p0.jpg?v=1763642585","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934757642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}