Ignorance is Blitz: Mangled Moments of History From Actual College Students

By Anders Henriksson

Now in chunky format, the funniest book ever written about the history of Western Civilization. Originally published under the title Non Campus Mentis , this book made four national bestseller lists-- The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post , and BookSense ; has 200,000 copies in print; and garnered praise from across the country: "Glorious . . . equal-opportunity idiocy for every era."-- Philadelphia Enquirer . "A horrifically hilarious compendium . . . knitting together errors, assumptions, and creative fact-making that are shocking and hysterical."-- Associated Press . "You'll laugh until you cry, shedding tears for the state of American education."-- Baltimore Sun . Compiled by Professor Anders Henriksson from the term papers and blue book exams of students who clearly made it to college before the advent of "No Child Left Behind," Ignorance Is Blitz is unput-downable. You won't believe what you just read, and won't want to wait to see what's coming next, from the Virgin Mary's Immaculate Contraption to Pericles' greatest erection, the Parthenonon to Custard's Last Stand to Hitler shooting himself in the Bonker and Martin Luther King's ground-breaking speech, "If I Had a Hammer." And who knew: Caesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March, when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus." Rasputin was a pheasant by birth. Victims of the black plague grew boobs on their neck. Judyism had one big God named Yahoo. Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for inventing the radiator. And "During the Dark Ages, it was mostly dark."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076114949X
• ISBN13: 9780761149491
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.0" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

College learning

This is a funny book and certainly reinforces the notion that college students are doing a lot more than learning academic subjects while they are in college.

Funny funny funny!

This book is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The original title of the book was "Non Campus Mentis". It is excerpts from college student's term papers on a variety of subjects of a historical nature. I have shared this with many friends and highly recommend they either borrow it or buy it. It is so funny! I just think about this book and start laughing. The cover of the book states "mangled moments of history from actual college students." It is both amazing and probably scary in some of the mistaken words and beliefs from the youth of our nation - and hilarious! I recommend it to everyone I meet - if they want a good laugh.

College students minus IQ's

It's unbelievable how ignorant college students are, but by passing them through high school without any guidance in English or literature, this is what we should expect. The book is really quite amusing and entertaining.

Light and fun

The expected laughs are present in this book and themes are fairly well organized. I bought this for a professor friend who is near retirement, but only downside is that the book is physically smaller than I thought it would be and the cover material isn't great quality. I wouldn't care but for a gift I usually like to step it up a little!!! For the price, a good buy.

Blitz Comments

Really neat book at a good price. My grandson and I are enjoying reading it together. We received the book on schedule, in excellent condition. Thanks.