I absolutely adore this book. In the summer before 11th grade, my AP US History teacher sent home a biiiiig packet full of summer reading that we were going to be tested on every day for the first week or two of school. It was daunting and horrifying...until I realized that a lot of it was made up of a print-out of this book. (We still had like 10 chapters to read from our book, so the assignment was still horrifying and daunting, but this made it a lot better.)

Dave Barry is a brilliant columnist (according to Bart Simpson, he pokes fun at life's little foibles!) and I'm so glad he decided he needed to impart lessons of America's history to the young people. The young people need this book, you guys. How will they know about the Hawley-Smoot Tariff if they don't have this book?! These are the important questions we must ask ourselves.

I'd recommend this book to anyone who knows enough about US history to realize how flipping funny this book actually is. Also, it would probably make a great gift for that high school kid you know that probably takes history. It's easy to read, hard to put down, and hilarious.