Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Seeped in dark humor, this is a tongue-in-cheek, and utterly entertaining guide to all the facts you didn't know you needed to know about history, life, and the world in general.The Nazis wanted to make rubber from dandelions.Christmas used to be illegal in Boston.Al Capone is responsible for expiration dates on milk.Restaurants introduced children's menus because of prohibition.Which founding fathers of the United States were drug addicts? Here's a hint: Pretty much all of them. Marijuana prohibition has more to do with racism than health.The colonization of Hawaii was a bloody hell-fest of slavery and exploitation.From hysterical backstories of gods behaving badly with lettuce to the lady who badgered Abraham Lincoln into turning Thanksgiving into a national holiday, Eric Haan takes you on a highly irreverent and educational journey through everything from milk, the Marquis De Sade, flatworms, pirates, the Bubonic Plague, and Charles Dickens.