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Political Gabfest Reads: The Art of Writing Political Satire

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Society & Culture, News, Business

3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

David Plotz talks with author Alexandra Petri about her new book, Alexandra Petri’s US History: Important American Documents. They discuss how to transform staid history documents into rollicking parodies, how Petri found her “voice” multiple times, and her grander ambitions for the book. Plus, Petri reads some choice selections. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Welcome to Gap-Thess Reed's I'm David Potts, one of the hosts of Slate's political

0:38.2

Gap-Bhes. Like Henry Kissinger or possibly a Kardashian, Alexander Petry has written a new book that has her own name in the title.

0:49.0

Alexander Petry's US History Important American Documents I Made Up.

0:54.7

Alexander is of course the extremely funny columnist for the Washington Post and if you've

0:58.6

read her there her new book will not be at all surprising but it will still be a billion

1:04.7

percent delightful. She has re-told the history of America through a series of

1:10.1

funny and entirely manufactured documents.

1:13.5

Walt Whitman's songs Not of Myself.

1:16.4

Other lists by Joe McCarthy,

1:19.0

John and Abigail Adams Tri Sexting,

1:21.5

The Gettysburg Address,

1:22.6

as written by Aaron Sorkin, 50 States of Gray,

1:25.8

audience feedback for our American cousin.

1:28.5

One I really like, big women, Louisa May Alcott's

1:31.1

unsuccessful first draft of little women which begins

1:33.9

Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents grumble Joe lying on the enormous rug

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