This entertaining, informative collection covers the best of American satire-from Ben Franklin's cutting satiric attacks to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Celestial Railroad, Calvin Trillin's Old Marrieds, Mark Twain's American Abroad to P.J. O'Rourke's The Innocents Abroad-Updated, a late 20th-century take on Twain's classic piece. "Entertaining and satisfying...An excellent introduction."-Amazon.com.