
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
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A New York Times-bestselling, comical take on world history from the beloved New Yorker humorist. So, you think you know most of what there is to know about people like Nero and Cleopatra, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun, Lady Godiva and Miles Standish? You say there's nothing more to be written about Lucrezia Borgia? How wrong you are, for in these pages you'll find Will Cuppy footloose in the footnotes of history. He transforms these luminaries into human beings, not as we knew them from history books, but as we would have known them Cuppy-wise: foolish, fallible, and very much our common ancestors. When it was first published in 1950, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spent four months on The New York Times bestseller list, and Edward R. Murrow devoted more than two-thirds of one of his nightly CBS programs to a reading from Cuppy's historical sketches, calling it "the history book of the year." The book eventually went through eighteen hardcover printings and ten foreign editions, proof of its impeccable accuracy and deadly, imperishable humor.
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Will Cuppywas a literary critic and humorist, known for his funny and satirical articles and books about nature and history. He wrote for The New Yorker and other magazines, and his articles have been collected into books that are both amusing and factual.
William Steig drew over 2,600 cartoons and 117 covers for the New Yorker during his nearly fifty-year career. His children's books include Godine's Rotten Island and Shrek! ,the basis for the animated film series.
Content
- Intro
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: IT SEEMS THERE WERE TWO EGYPTIANS
- Cheops, or Khufu
- Hatshepsut
- PART II: ANCIENT GREEKS AND WORSE
- Pericles
- Alexander the Great
- Hannibal
- Cleopatra
- Nero
- PART III: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
- Attila the Hun
- Charlemagne
- Lady Godiva
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Philip the Sap
- PART IV: A FEW GREATS
- Louis XIV
- Madame du Barry
- Peter the Great
- Catherine the Great
- Frederick the Great
- PART V: MERRIE ENGLAND
- William the Conqueror
- Henry VIII
- Elizabeth
- George III
- PART VI: NOW WE'RE GETTING SOMEWHERE
- Leif the Lucky
- Christopher Columbus
- Montezuma
- Captain John Smith
- Miles Standish
- PART VII: THEY ALL HAD THEIR FUN
- Some Royal Pranks
- Some Royal Stomachs
- Afterword by Thomas Maeder
- Back Cover
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