A review by iffer
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Audiobook): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart

3.0

In the wake of everyone talking about people living in "bubbles" in the wake of the 2016 US Presidential election, I have to say that this book isn't going to puncture or cross any bubbles. That said, I found it an engaging and amusing very brief summary of the "basics" sprawling topics of US history and politics. For me it was a general refresher of many things that sounded vaguely familiar from school, but which I should really know better/have paid more attention to. Although this is definitely liberal, it pokes fun at the absurdity of the US system in every direction, so it didn't bother me so much. If you're looking for a book with proposed solutions, rather than one humorously identifying flaws, then this isn't the place for you, though. Not to sound like a jerk, but I could also foresee people who didn't have a strong background in US history of politics to believe some of the sarcasm/jokes interspersed, kind of like how Onion articles are mistaken for truth. I suppose that that is another testament to the absurdity of politics, though.