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Overview
Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from term papers & blue book exams.From college students' own authentic and inimitable voices comes a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist hypotheses, and creative interpretations of history, the subject that grinds our critical, seething minds to a halt.
DID YOU KNOW:
Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, Me too, Brutus!
Stalin, Rosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the Big Three
Rasputin was a pheasant by birth
Judyism had one big God named Yahoo
Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand
Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator
The Civil Rights movement turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous If I Had a Hammer speech.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
This sidesplitting collection features blunders from college students who didn't quite study as hard as they should have. From the "Yikes of March" to the subtleties of "Judyism," Non Campus Mentis takes readers on a hilarious tour of what students are not learning in the hallowed halls of America's universities.Baltimore Sun
You'll laugh until you cry...Associated Press Staff
"A horrifically hilarious compendium...knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical."—Associated Press
Baltimore Sun
"Shocking and hysterical. You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education."Book Details
Published
March 26, 2002
Publisher
New York : Workman Pub., 2001.
Pages
160
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780761122746