American Fables for the Politically Incorrect

Title

en_US American Fables for the Politically Incorrect

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Signed apparent first printing

en_US Carl Charbonnet

Creator

en_US Charbonnet, Carl See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Gregory, Jeff

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:55Z

en_US 2000-11

en_US 1996

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:55Z

Date Issued

en_US 1996

Abstract

en_US Reading this book makes me angry! These are stories aimed, according to their author, at the tiny minority of men and women who understand, believe in and stand up for the Constitution (iii). The constitution in his view primarily limits government in American lives. The stories are aimed generally against those who believe that the government should control life. Thus The Ants and the Grasshopper (23) has government agents coming into the ant home to seize the contraband food they have hoarded for the winter, but the grasshopper who provoked their raid cannot get any of the seized food from the welfare office because the wrong form was given him to fill out. The famished grasshopper dies on his way to try to fill out the right form. I cannot find any stories that are based on known fables. One very short selection is titled The Good Abortionist (59). It has two paragraphs, each one sentence long: He saved the lives of nine babies. One Morning [sic] he woke up sick with a virus and didn't go to work. There are four full-page illustrations.

Identifier

en_US 0964878607

en_US 3616 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78977

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US American de Tocqueville Press

en_US Birmingham, AL

Subject

en_US PS648.H84 C493 1996 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole