Peter Strupp

Fat, Dumb, and Ugly (eBook, ePUB)

The Decline of the Average American
Illustrator: Dingman, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The world's lone superpower...supreme guardian of democracy...and home of the blithely uninformed and epidemically obese. Welcome to America -- pull up a chair, click on the tube, and grab a donut. Concerned Citizen Peter Strupp is shocked and bothered by what he sees. It seems we're not as thin, smart, and good-looking as we like to think. Packed with real facts and statistics, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly takes readers on an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud, and at times horrifying tour of the numbers that shape our country:

. Percentage of adults in the United States who are overweight: 64.5

. Percentage of Americans who believe they have actually spoken with Satan: 5

. Percentage of voters for whom Saturday Night Live and MTV are primary sources of information about presidential candidates: 16

. Average number of pink lawn flamingos sold annually in America: 250,000

A wickedly hilarious and addictive cultural snapshot of our nation of conspicuous consumers, fast-food fanatics, and dumbed-down dolts, Fat, Dumb, and Ugly casts a revealing spotlight on John Q. Public, the average American -- and it's not always pretty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451603903
• Artikelnr.: 49183068

Autorenporträt

Peter Strupp has lived in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction since his upbringing in small-town Wisconsin. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.