FAKE HISTORY!: The Story Of How Fake Historians Treated Christopher Columbus Very Very Unfairly

Hello, my name is Christopher Columbus, and I am The Greatest Explorer There Ever Was Or Ever Will Be. And yet, never in history has a man, who has been so great, who has done so much, for himself, and for so many people, and for the world, frankly, been treated so unfairly, for never will there be a circumstance to Trump what has happened to me, your fair narrator, the Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Don Christopher Columbus. And so starts the man who discovered America's recently recovered memoir recorded from his death bed in exile in 1506, which somehow has as many relevant things to say about our life in the United States today as it does about his life in the New World back then. At a time when Americans are debating replacing the Federal Columbus Day holiday with a paid Election Day holiday, FAKE HISTORY! satirizes Christopher Columbus' age of exploration, today's Trumpian phase of politics, and all eras of our history, all at the same time. A good gift for fans of Monty Python, Mel Brooks, and Drunk History, FAKE HISTORY! conflates the past with the present in order to help us imagine a better future. Dave Cowen has written humor for The New Yorker and McSweeney's as well as published two other Amazon Best Sellers in the Political Humor and Parody categories, which have been featured in The New York Times.