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    America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

    Published by Hachette Audio

    Narrated by Tim Meadows and Jordin Ruderman

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    Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness.

    But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our future to China, and the Apologist-in-Chief goes on world tours just to bow before foreign leaders. Worse, the L.A. Four Seasons Hotel doesn't even have a dedicated phone button for the Spa. You have to dial an extension! Where did we lose our way?!

    It's high time we restored America to the greatness it never lost!

    Luckily, AMERICA AGAIN will singlebookedly pull this country back from the brink. It features everything from chapters, to page numbers, to fonts. Covering subject's ranging from healthcare ("I shudder to think where we'd be without the wide variety of prescription drugs to treat our maladies, such as think-shuddering") to the economy ("Life is giving us lemons, and we're shipping them to the Chinese to make our lemon-flavored leadonade") to food ("Feel free to deep fry this book-it's a rich source of fiber"), Stephen gives America the dose of truth it needs to get back on track.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781607889694
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    Reviews for America Again

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    • 3/5
      Some chapters were just hilarious, some I could have (and should have) skipped. Sarcastic and fun. Now I have to read the first one. I did think that the 3D was competely superfluous....Oh....antedelopean
    • 4/5
      Stephen Colbert holds forth in his inimitable satiric fashion on such topics as jobs, food, healthcare, why America is the most perfect place on Earth, how America is desperately in need of fixing, how to raise election funds via spam e-mail, and why the stock market crisis was all the fault of poor people.I enjoyed Colbert's first book, but I found this one more consistently funny. It's very much in the same tone as Stephen uses on The Colbert Report; I could easily hear his voice in every line, and frequent hilarious footnotes make the whole thing feel kind of like a book-length "The Word" segment. If you enjoy the TV show, you'll almost certainly enjoy this. Plus, it comes with 3D glasses!
    • 4/5
      Like an extended play of his hilarious show Colbert's book touches on many of his favorite topics.
    • 4/5
      very similar to his first title (i am America), it's nonstop hilarious banter from Colbert but nothing too deep.
    • 1/5
      terrible audio quality. probably scribd's fault, not the original recording. very funny and insightful so far. cant listen to it though if it's gonna sound this crappy
    • 4/5
      Suffers a bit from the format - topics are more general than specific to keep them from being outdated - and the humor goes a little over the top but honestly, I laughed out loud a lot and that's hard to get me to do. So thumbs up.
    • 3/5
      Honestly? Not as funny as I'd hoped. Maybe Colbert works better as a series of short jokes rather than paragraphs of material. It's written largely as a series of punchlines. I listened on audio and though it was read by Colbert, you don't get the breaks in text that you do with the pictures and graphs in the print version. It doesn't help that a lot of Colbert's arguments - meant as satirical hyperbole - get used with complete seriousness by many people. I suspect I might have enjoyed this in print, but even then I doubt it would be reread material. I like Colbert; I just think I prefer him on TV.
    • 3/5
      This is basically a book version of Colbert's trademark satirical pseudo-conservative style. It's very funny, but not really meant to be read as a book so much as in little dribs and drabs.
    • 4/5
      Not as good as his first one, but still pretty darn hilarious.
    • 2/5
      Stephen Colbert is hilarious. I enjoyed the pictures and silly little comments. I know this is a farce, but I didn't read for the politics.
    • 5/5
      LOVED this!! I love satire so it's amazing that I haven't gotten around to reading Stephen Colbert sooner. I highly recommend listening to the audiobook version because it's narrated by the Colbert himself. Laugh out loud funny, this audiobook may have listeners careening out of control on the highway. It's that good. Colbert breaks his book apart into the following sections: American exceptionalism, jobs, healthcare, Wall Street, energy, elections, justice, food, easy solutions, and "I am Drunk." Each chapter is meant to reinforce the listener/reader's belief that America is the greatest and he gives hilarious reasons why. “America is exceptional. Does that statement shock you? It shocks me to have to say it! To be forced by your doubt to say out loud that America is exceptional implies something ugly. It's like telling the host of a dinner party 'I'm certain your wife is a female.' Saying it out loud just feels wrong. No matter how big her hands are.” Hilarious, ironic, and well worth a listen :)
    • 4/5
      First off, the audio-book version of this is totally worth it. Colbert reads it all himself, and even puts on some some crazy accents for the "My Turn" sections (allegedly written by real people).

      But is it funny? Well, do you think Stephen Colbert is funny? You do? Then yes. Yes it is. The best part for me is how current the topics are. You get chapters on jobs, healthcare, elections and Wall Street -- everything that Obama and Romney love to fight over!
    • 4/5
      This was pretty damn funny, and has perhaps one of the best/most entertaining explanations of the housing collapse I've yet seen or heard.
    • 3/5
      So I couldn't help myself. I picked this one up to take a peek and ended up reading the whole thing! (Even though I have other books I should have read first.) Although I've never watched his show, I enjoy Colbert's books. I found myself laughing out loud many times in this one. I think it's a little more obviously poking fun at conservatives than the previous book, which left me uncertain as to Colbert's actual stance. The healthcare section was probably my favorite, especially the "make your own drug" section.
    • 2/5
      I'm a big fan of the Colbert Report, but this book just wasn't that good. There were just a couple chuckleworthy parts.
    • 5/5
      Stephen Colbert is the messiah for the 21st Century! Or, even better, the "god" for the 21st Century! And his latest tome is the "bible" for the 21st Century. How did America survive this long without Colbert? Read and become enlightened.
    • 4/5
      America Again is typical fare for Stephen Colbert, the comedian who plays at being a blowhard conservative on his show The Colbert Report. In this book, he tackles a diversity of topics related to government, politics, and current affairs. While I found his first book laugh out loud funny, this one only elicited a few chuckles from me here and there. I had thought having the audio book version would make it even more compelling (or at least more like watching the show), but it still didn’t have quite the same oomph as the show does. Perhaps it’s the issue of not having specific news stories to heckle, but this one didn’t really do it for me. It wasn’t a bad read per se, just not as good a one as I was expecting. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this one, except to die-hard Colbert fans.
    • 5/5
      AMERICA AGAINStephen Colbert. Need I say more? Probably not, but I will anyway.In AMERICA AGAIN: RE-BECOMING THE GREATNESS WE NEVER WEREN’T, Stephen Colbert explains, in ten chapters, why America is exceptional. He covers jobs, healthcare; Wall Street, energy, elections, justice, and food, then offers some easy solutions. The book also includes 3-D glasses which are useful for a full appreciation of the pictures at the beginning of each chapter.In the Wall Street chapter, he explains the 2008 Wall Street meltdown. It forced Wall Street to accept the “largest welfare check in U.S. history: $7 trillion....” A couple paragraphs later he observes, “after the crisis finance is the one industry in America that continued to thrive while the rest of the economy sank into oblivion.”He examines the Citizen’s United case, quoting Justice Kennedy: “We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.”He presents proof of allegations of voter fraud.He has a two-page map of the US displaying the food that someone running for President has to eat in each state. I’m from Ohio and Wendy’s is noted as is Ben & Jerry’s in Vermont.Throughout the book, his well-known and developed character is featured prominently as are his shameless promotions of the book. Great pictures, illustrations, observations, and the expected Colbert wit.