Say uncle;: A completely uncalled-for history of the U.S.,

by Eric Nicol

The world has been waiting for a new and authoritative history of the USA. This book is definitely not it. However, coming at a moment when relations between the US and Canada are a bit strained, publication of this history of the US as conceived by 2 Canadians may be fairly urged a masterpiece of bad timing. The authors have not only discussed the War of 1812 but have provided ample incentive for its renewal. This books scope and attention to detail can be grasped only when one knows that it originally consisted of 96 pages on the history of the US and 527 pages of errata. The present modest size of the book resulted from the discovery that it was cheaper to eliminate the pages of errata and arrange for the printer to be put aboard a boat bound for Argentina. The reader can therefor look forward to a unique experience. Familiar though he may be with de Tocqueville , Schlesinger and Adams, until he has viewed the history of the US through the eyes of Whalley and NIcol he cannot appreciate the importance of properly fitted glasses.

96 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1951

About the author

Eric Patrick Nicol was a Canadian writer, best known as a longtime humor columnist for the Vancouver, British Columbia newspaper The Province. He also published over 40 books, both original works and compilations of his humour columns, and won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times.