Russell Baker's Book of American Humor

by Russell Baker

Book Overview

Baker surveys this territory in this rich treasury and stakes it out in a dozen sections. Roaming through them, the reader will find P.J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken, James Thurber, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393035921
• ISBN13: 9780393035926
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

genuinely funny

Humor being a matter of taste, it's difficult to find a collection that actually works. Russell Baker's collection really does accomplish what it sets out to do: "to make you laugh, or at least smile, or maybe just feel a little more interior warmth despite 'the situation'" (from the introduction). Running the gamut from sheer looniness to literary parody, and containing vintage material as well as contemporary items, this is a wonderful collection of items to lighten things up.