A Parody Outline of History

Wherein may be found a curiously irreverent treatment of AMERICAN HISTORICAL EVENTS Imagining them as they would be narrated by American's most characteristic contemporary authors. 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 The 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