world’s shortest books

1. Let Us Honor Great Italian War Heroes;


2. Two Millennia of German Humanism;


3. A Manual of French Hygiene;


4. Recognizing British Heterosexuality;


5. A Field Guide to Great American Lovers;


6. Mastering Russian Table Manners;


7. A Treasury of Polish Wit and Wisdom;


8. The Secrets of Iranian Diplomacy;


9. Iron Rules of Chinese Business Ethics;


10. Side-Splitting Japanese Jokes;


11. Loving Your Neighbors the Greek Way;


12. Jewish Ways of Happiness; and


13. Negroes I Have Met While Yachting.

no typical white person

The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity, but that she is a typical white person. If she sees somebody on the street that she doesn’t know (pause) there’s a reaction in her that doesn’t go away and it comes out in the wrong way.
—Barack Hussein Obama, call to Philadelphia sports radio 610 WIP, 20 March 2008

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