The Politically Correct Guide to American History

This amusing book examines the famous events and figures of American history through the cracked yet increasingly popular lens of "political correctness." From the voyage of Columbus to the taming of the Wild West, accounts of the American past are shrewdly recast according to trendy notions regarding gender issues, the environment, and other current concerns.

Edward P. Moser is a melanin-impoverished, testosterone-enhanced person whose Swiss-Irish ancestry condemns him to the habitual intake of chocolate and alcoholic poisons.  A contributing writer to The Tonight Show, he has had may humorous commentaries published in such periodicals as the Washington Post and The Boston Globe.  An analyst for a Washington, D.C.-area firm, he has also been a wage slave for the U.S. Senate and the National Academy of Sciences.