Alice in Blunderland: A Parable for Our Times

by John Kendrick Bangs

2021-05-27 02:35:25

"An Underground Best-Seller" - "Animal Farm for 21st Century Politics" - What would happen if Alice, of Wonderland fame, were dropped into a political system where the government runs every aspect of life? You would have Alice in Blunderland, a 1907... Read more
"An Underground Best-Seller" - "Animal Farm for 21st Century Politics" - What would happen if Alice, of Wonderland fame, were dropped into a political system where the government runs every aspect of life? You would have Alice in Blunderland, a 1907 classic, brought back to life-with even more meaning for our modern times. Join Alice as she explores a city where: The town has an official beggar-who is on government salary. - Boys are required to dance with homely girls-or get arrested. - They have the safest, most fuel-efficient, mass transit system in the world-because it doesn''t go anywhere. - Teeth are public property. - The Commissioner of Public Verse has 16,743 poets working for him-and words that don''t rhyme are made to rhyme by civic decree. - And, the official government monetary policy is expressed as follows: We promise to pay / This bond some day / If of the stuff / We''ve got enough. / And if we haven''t, pray don''t despond, / For we''ll pay it off with another bond. - "This would be one of the funniest political satires I''ve ever read-if it weren''t so close to current reality." Less

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ISBN9781934757642
John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor, and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis N. Bangs was a lawyer in New Yor...

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