Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students - Hardcover

Henriksson, Anders

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761122745 ISBN 13: 9780761122746

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2001

Synopsis

Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from Term Papers & Blue Book Exams

Did You Know:

• Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, "Me too, Brutus!"
• Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the "Big Three"
• Rasputin was a pheasant by birth
• Judyism had one big God named Yahoo
• Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand
• Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator
• The Civil Rights movement turned the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous "If I Had a Hammer" speech

About this title

About the Author

Anders Henriksson is a professor of history at Shepherd College in West Virginia. Author of Ignorance Is Blitz, he has been featured on The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, and National Public Radio. He and his wife live in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

From the Back Cover

Mangled Moments of Western Civilization from term papers & blue book exams.

From college students' own authentic and inimitable voices comes a collection of bloopers, malapropisms, revisionist hypotheses, and creative interpretations of history, the subject that grinds our critical, seething minds to a halt.

DID YOU KNOW:

Cesar was assassinated on the Yikes of March when he is reported to have said, Me too, Brutus!

Stalin, Rosevelt, Churchill, and Truman were known as the Big Three

Rasputin was a pheasant by birth

Judyism had one big God named Yahoo

Westward expansion ended at Custard's Last Stand

Marie Curie won the Noel Prize for inventing the radiator

The Civil Rights movement turned around the corner with Martin Luther Junior's famous If I Had a Hammer speech.

Edition details

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761122745
• ISBN 13: 9780761122746
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160