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The Onion Presents Our Dumb Century : 100 years of headlines from America's finest news source / [by Scott Dikkers and the Staff of The Onion].
LIBRA - Running Press Collection Running Press Miniatures Box 9 Book 16
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dikkers, Scott, author.
- Series:
- Running Press miniature edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Newspapers--Headlines--Humor.
- Newspapers.
- American wit and humor.
- Newspapers--Headlines.
- Genre:
- Printed books -- 21st century -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Specimens.
- Humor.
- Miniature books
- Penn Provenance:
- Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits ; 84 mm
- Distribution:
- London : Running Press,
- Other Title:
- Our dumb century : one hundred years of headlines
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1900-1929 A Nation Turns Its Crank
- 1929-1946 Dust, Despair and Death: Those Were the Days
- 1946-1963 The Swell Years
- 1963-1981 Peace, Love and Other Bullshit
- 1981-2000 A Nation Finds Its Remote.
- Notes:
- "A Running Press Miniature Edition™"--Title-page verso.
- "This book has been bound using handcraft methods and Smyth-sewn to ensure durability."--Colophon.
- "The dust jacked was designed by The Onion. The interior was designed by Dustin Summers. The text was excerpted from 'Our Dumb Century by the Onion.'www.theonion.com. The text was written by Scott Dikkers and the staff of The Onion. The text was edited by Alison Trulock. The text was set in Excelsior and Anzeigen Grotesk."--Colophon.
- Green ribbon bookmark with small golden onion attached.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press coopy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0762418664
- 9780762418664
- OCLC:
- 57244374
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