Parody Outline of History

H.G. Wells' monumental 'Outline of History' somehow forgot to mention America. Donald Ogden Stewart found this oversight unforgivable and decided to fix it by recruiting the greatest American writers to narrate our national saga. Imagine Mark Twain's wry observations on the founding fathers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's gilded portraits of the robber barons, or Ernest Hemingway's terse accounts of the revolution. Stewart imagined what American history would sound like if written by our most characteristic literary voices, creating a playful alternate history where the past gets filtered through the personalities of those who shaped American letters. The result is a sparkling satire that exposes the arbitrary mythology of history-telling itself, revealing how every narrator shapes the story they tell.