A parody outline of history / by Donald Ogden Stewart, wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of American historical events, imagining them as they would be narrated by America's most characteristic contemporary authors, together with divers delightful, droll drawings, penciled by Herb Roth, the whole forming an amusing and satirical picture of American letters of today.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980.

Contributor:

Roth, Herb, 1887-1953.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parodies.

United States--History--Humor.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1893-1980 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection and Gotham Book Mart Collection copies)

Harriman, W. Averill (William Averill), 1891-1986 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Louise, Ruth Harriet, 1903-1940 (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Stanley, Jean (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Stewart, Donald Ogden, 1894-1980 (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Jason, Leigh (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 230 pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Published in these United States by George H. Doran Company, MCMXXI [1921]

Contents:

Introduction: A critical survey of American history / in the manner of William Lyon Phelps

Cristofer Colombo: A comedy of discovery / in the manner of James Branch Cabell

Main Street: Plymouth, Mass. / in the manner of Sinclair Lewis

Courtship of Miles Standish / in the manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Spirit of '75: Letters of a Minute Man / in the manner of Ring Lardner

Whiskey Rebellion / in the bedtime story manner of Thornton W. Burgess

How love came to General Grant / in the manner of Harold Bell Wright

Custer's last stand / in the manner of Edith Wharton

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.

Notes:

With half-title.

Title printed within decorated frame.

Plates included in pagination.

Blue cloth boards with paper labels lettered in black on front cover and spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed: "To Bill Harriman with kindest regards. Donald Ogden Stewart - P.E.A. '12."

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has loose front board, cracked front hinge, and torn spine.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy inscribed "To Ruth Harriet Louise from Donald Ogden Stewart with a great deal of gratitude for a lot of very fine features. Thanksgiving 1925." The name "Ruth Harriet Louise" is crossed out with "Jean Stanley" written above.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has booksellers' note "to Ruth Harriet Louise a great Hollywood photographer (Garbo, et al.)" on front pastedown.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has stamp "This book was stolen from Leigh Jason" and ms. note "Don't be silly it's mine A[le]k" on half-title.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has label "Books Old & New Unity Pegues ..." on back pastedown.

OCLC:

335799