With Book of the Year, Another Triumph for Fake News

By Staff, PW NewsLine -- Publishers Weekly, 12/7/2004

Chances are you already know and probably enjoy it, but in case there's any doubt, PW today named Jon Stewart's America (The Book) its book of the year. "In a year defined by political polemics," the magazine feature begins, "it seems fitting that PW's Book of the Year be one in which the authors survey the entire political system--and laugh.

"America (The Book) offers more than just humor, however. Beneath the eye-catching and at times goofy graphics, the dirty jokes and the playful ingenuousness shines a serious critique of the two-party system, [and] the corporations that finance it." Of course we've got nothing on the TBR, in which Tom Carson suggested, not really joking, that it would make a worthy candidate for the history Pulitzer.