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Book Review of American Way of Laughing

American Way of Laughing
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A 1977 collection, in about 240 pp, of American humor by and about many well-known and a few not-so-well-known American writers and characters, including Ben Franklin, Davy Crockett, Josh Billings, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Finlay P. Dunne, Will Rogers, Dorothy Parker, James Thurber, E.B. White, Art Buchwald, Woody Allen, the ever popular Anonymous, and many others. All selections are fun to read and from which to read aloud.