false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175974016m/579696.jpg 579696 4 Every Wednesday, work at Amazon.com--along with just about every other company connected to the fantastical "information superhighway" invented by Vice President Al Gore and actress Hedy Lamarr--grinds to a halt as employees hasten to read the latest issue of <I>The Onion</I>, America's most popular newspaper based in Madison, Wisconsin. But most of the paper's fans have started reading it only within the last few years, and are sadly unaware of <I>The Onion</I>'s mighty journalistic legacy. To combat this cultural illiteracy, Editor in Chief Scott Dikkers and his writing staff have assembled this collection of great front pages from the last hundred years. Here is just a sampling of the headlines:<p> <B>A New Century Dawns! McKinley Ushers in Bold New "Coal Age"</B><p> <B>Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Boasts: "No Man Can Stop Me"</B><p> <B>AWESOME! Nation Wowed by Tremendous Hindenburg Explosion</B><p> <B>Martin Luther King: "I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night"</B><p> <B>Clinton Denies Lewinsky Allegations: "We Did Not Have Sex, We Made Love," He Says</B><p> And those are just the headlines; the stories themselves are all masterpieces of the journalist's trade. Of course, readers with delicate sensibilities may find some of these accounts a bit too risqué, and perhaps even tasteless. (Among the potential offenders: Rosa Parks's decision to "screw this bus shit" and take a cab.) But if you're looking for an antidote to all the 20th-century hoopla promulgated by stuffed shirts like Peter Jennings and Harold Evans--not to mention the best history book since <I>1066 and All That</I>--then <I>Our Dumb Century</I> is the one for you. <I>--Ron Hogan</I> 1602327 1998 Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source total:1027|5:529|4:362|3:118|2:17|1:1| 1027 4482 1297 66 5 2 false false Tue Aug 28 00:19:32 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 28 00:24:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 24 21:23:23 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 21:27:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Mar 23 10:16:40 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 16:12:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 16:21:12 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 07:18:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 true false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 18:55:37 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 18:56:30 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999 Thu Sep 17 08:57:06 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 09:03:30 -0700 2009 The Onion, with a headline page for various historically significant events of the 20th century. It expects a certain amount of prior knowledge from its readers to understand the humor. Beyond the headlines themselves, reading the text of the articles is a deligh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 21 13:41:51 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:46:33 -0700 2009
1. 1951: "Morty and Betty Crocker Executed for Selling Top-Secret Cake Recipes to Reds."

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Martin Luther King: I Had a Really Weird Dream Last Night

FDR: The Only Thing We Have to Fear is a Decade-long, Crippling Depression

Man Walks on Fucking Moon

Christian Right Ascends to Heaven

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