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Paul Lewis

Cracking Up

American Humor in a Time of Conflict

224 pages, 27 halftones  6 x 9  © 2006

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226476995   Published October 2006

List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You"
Killing Jokes of the 1980s and 1990s
2. Red Noses at the Ready!
The Positive Humor Movement
3. Shut Up! No, You Shut Up!
Fighting With and About Humor
4. Ridicule to Rule
The Strange Case of George W. Bush
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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