FAKE HISTORY!: The Story Of How Faux Historians Handled Christopher Columbus Very Very Unfairly

Hi there, my identify is Christopher Columbus, and I’m The Best Explorer There Ever Was Or Ever Will Be. And but, by no means in historical past has a person, who has been so nice, who has finished a lot, for himself, and for thus many individuals, and for the world, frankly, been handled so unfairly, for by no means will there be a circumstance to Trump what has occurred to me, your truthful narrator, the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Don Christopher Columbus. And so begins the person who found America’s lately recovered memoir recorded from his demise mattress in exile in 1506, which one way or the other has as many related issues to say about our life in america in the present day because it does about his life within the New World again then. At a time when Individuals are debating changing the Federal Columbus Day vacation with a paid Election Day vacation, FAKE HISTORY! satirizes Christopher Columbus’ age of exploration, in the present day’s Trumpian section of politics, and all eras of our historical past, all on the identical time. A great present for followers of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Drunk Historical past, FAKE HISTORY! conflates the previous with the current so as to assist us think about a greater future. Dave Cowen has written humor for The New Yorker and McSweeney’s in addition to revealed two different Amazon Finest Sellers within the Political Humor and Parody classes, which have been featured in The New York Instances.