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Following up on 2007s bestselling i am america and so can you. Described as a wellintentioned, poorly informed highstatus idiot and a selfimportant rightwing commentator. A citizens guide to democracy inaction is a 2004 humor book written by jon stewart and other writers of the daily show that parodies and satirizes american politics and worldview. Discount prices on books by stephen colbert, including titles like christianity and philosophical culture in the fifth century. The book is loosely structured around the fictional life story of stephen colbert as he appears on the colbert report. Explaining political concepts to uninformed readers while. It was released on october 7, 2007, by grand central publishing. The thing that made america the book so good was the collaboration of the various daily show comedians, stewart, colbert, bee, black, cordery, etc.
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