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    Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
    Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
    Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
    Audiobook4 hours

    Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway

    Written by Dave Barry

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Understanding the urgent need for a deeply thoughtful, balanced book to explain our national political process, Dave Barry has not even come close. Though he himself has covered many campaigns, run for president several times, and run for cover at the rainy inauguration of George W. Bush (the man will spare nothing for his art), Barry has instead outdone himself.

    Below the Beltway includes Barry's stirring account of how the United States was born, including his version of a properly written Declaration (When in the course of human events it behooves us, the people, not to ask "What can our country do for us, anyway?" but rather whether we have anything to fear except fear itself) and a revised Constitution (Section II: The House of Representatives shall be composed of people who own at least two dark suits and have not been indicted recently).

    Dave also cracks the income-tax code and explains the growth(s) of government, congressional hearing difficulties, and the persistent rumors of the influence of capital in the Capitol. Among other civic contributions, his tour of Washington D.C. should end school class trips forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 16, 2017
    ISBN9781543611137
    Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway
    Author

    Dave Barry

    DAVE BARRY is a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor writer and bestselling author whose work has appeared in hundreds of newspapers.

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    • 5/5
      It was a nice break to the now political atmosphere.
    • 5/5
      Right up there with Wodehouse as a guaranteed mood lifter. Do not read with food; you might asphyxiate in a fit of hysteria. And bear in mind that "piracy on the low seas is ok" in the Barry Constitution. . .oh, that did it. I can't. . .
    • 2/5
      This is a snarky book about a whole cloud of things. It starts with the United States government, but it meanders from there into U.S. History, Florida, and concludes with a recounting of the drama surrounding the 2000 election. At no point is this book serious. It's basically just a serious of comedic observation organized around a central theme.
    • 5/5
      Right up there with Wodehouse as a guaranteed mood lifter. Do not read with food; you might asphyxiate in a fit of hysteria. And bear in mind that "piracy on the low seas is ok" in the Barry Constitution. . .oh, that did it. I can't. . .
    • 3/5
      Although I am normally a big fan of Dave Barry, his style doesn't quite do it for me in this book. I enjoyed the chapter on south Florida, but the rest of it lacks specifics, seems too easy, and falls flat.
    • 3/5
      Barry is silly as ever in this send-up of American politics, but his running gags fall a bit flat and his long section on South Florida politics is off the mark.
    • 4/5
      Dave Barry does it again! A great look at the humor of politics.