Gumption
Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers
(Sprache: Englisch)
The star of Parks and Recreation and author of Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second New York Times bestseller that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation's history, from her inception to present day--Nick's personal pantheon of "great Americans."
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The star of Parks and Recreation and author of Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second New York Times bestseller that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation's history, from her inception to present day--Nick's personal pantheon of "great Americans."
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The star of Parks and Recreation, co-host of Making It, and author of the New York Times bestseller Paddle Your Own Canoe returns with a second book that humorously highlights twenty-one figures from our nation s history, from her inception to present day Nick s personal pantheon of great Americans. To millions of people, Nick Offerman is America. Both Nick and his character, Ron Swanson, are known for their humor and patriotism in equal measure.
After the great success of his autobiography, Paddle Your Own Canoe, Offerman now focuses on the lives of those who inspired him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes twenty-one heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning. He combines both serious history with lighthearted humor comparing, say, Benjamin Franklin s abstinence from daytime drinking to Nick s own sage refusal to join his construction crew in getting plastered on the way to work. The subject matter also allows Offerman to expound upon his favorite topics, which readers love to hear areas such as religion, politics, woodworking and handcrafting, agriculture, creativity, philosophy, fashion, and, of course, meat. The book also features heroic yet humorous portraits by illustrator Ethan Nicolle, literally illuminating the twenty-one august figures.
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INTRODUCTION
How does one compile a list of great Americans? It s an embarrassment of riches. To narrow the field, I decided to begin with my choice for number one. I imagine, or at least I would hope, that most of our citizenry would agree by an overwhelming percentage that the first person landing upon that list is no, not Ray Kroc, the progenitor of the McShit sandwich. No, not Miley Cyrus or Beyoncé Knowles, or even Oprah Winfrey. Jesus! Goddamn. No, people, not Jesus! Yes, he was reportedly a supercool guy, but he just doesn t qualify as an American. I am referring, of course, to George Washington. The father of our country. I want to note that, of all the possible subjects, he easily sprang to mind first, based merely on my foggy grade school knowledge of his life s achievements in helping to create our republic and then sticking around to lead it as our nation s first president. Plus, he had wooden teeth! I m a woodworker! Slam dunk a sports metaphor, specifically basketball, meaning that the point(s) has (have) been scored emphatically!
I then began a list of other possible great Americans, basing my selections upon achievements of one kind or another that I considered to be great in scope. Leaders of men and women. Leaders of 4-H clubs. Activists, artists, zealots. Woodworkers, boatbuilders, farmers. Musicians. Priests. Muckrakers. Stoners. Hillary. Because after all, for the purposes of my examination, what exactly constitutes a great American? Runs batted in? Military victories? Humanitarian efforts? Amassing wealth? Collecting scalps? A number one single on the Billboard charts? A larder full of bacon? Ford F-250 in the barn? Well, duh.
While I continued to compile a roster of potential icons and discuss the book s overall direction with my great American editor, Jill, I began to read anew about Washington and the birth of our nation. I was powerfully stricken when I contemplated the actual situation in
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which our Founding Fathers found themselves, well, foundering: faced with the choice of either a continued subservience to an overweening Mother England or a gathering of their colonial brass balls in their mitts with which to cast off the taxing yoke of England s imperial control. Years earlier, when I learned all this history as a lad in school, I suppose the full implications of the events were lost on me, as I was not yet wielding a complete grasp of adult responsibility or governmental culpability as it applies to our daily lives.
The magnificent sons of bitches who founded our United States truly brandished a courage that is hard to fathom and a serving of foresight that very well beggars my modern imagination. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the like saw the extremely rare opportunity to create a new American experiment, one in which the best organizational techniques and brewing methods could be retained from the oldguard European governments, while discarding all the more unsavory trappings (clotted cream) of the monarchies and oligarchies they d left behind on the continent. These forward thinkers envisioned a nation ruled by the people, for the people, founded on notions like liberty and justice for all. Now all they had to do was liberate themselves from the iron grip of the military equivalent of Dwayne the Rock Johnson that was eighteenth-century Great Britain.
As I will explore in the coming pages, our country s inception had a lot of heroic nobility deservedly draped about its innovative framework, but it was also a series of events conducted by human beings, and so the intrepid experiment could not help but display some flaws as well. Not only were our fledgling American government and society crafted by human beings, but further, it mu
The magnificent sons of bitches who founded our United States truly brandished a courage that is hard to fathom and a serving of foresight that very well beggars my modern imagination. Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the like saw the extremely rare opportunity to create a new American experiment, one in which the best organizational techniques and brewing methods could be retained from the oldguard European governments, while discarding all the more unsavory trappings (clotted cream) of the monarchies and oligarchies they d left behind on the continent. These forward thinkers envisioned a nation ruled by the people, for the people, founded on notions like liberty and justice for all. Now all they had to do was liberate themselves from the iron grip of the military equivalent of Dwayne the Rock Johnson that was eighteenth-century Great Britain.
As I will explore in the coming pages, our country s inception had a lot of heroic nobility deservedly draped about its innovative framework, but it was also a series of events conducted by human beings, and so the intrepid experiment could not help but display some flaws as well. Not only were our fledgling American government and society crafted by human beings, but further, it mu
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Autoren-Porträt von Nick Offerman
NICK OFFERMAN is an actor, humorist, and woodworker. He is married to the most beautiful and talented actress working today, Megan Mullally. They live in Los Angeles, California, with their poodles and an impressive collection of assorted wood clamps.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nick Offerman
- 2016, 416 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,4 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 0451473019
- ISBN-13: 9780451473011
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Paddle Your Own Canoe:[Offerman] explores his Paul Bunyan-like image with tongue-in-cheek lessons on manliness, complete with illustrations and advice . . . [and] hilarious anecdotes from his career. Entertainment Weekly
Take it from us; Offerman s take on American history is worth reading. Vanity Fair
[T]hought-provoking, profane, and frequently hilarious. Publishers Weekly
Filled with advice on how to woo a woman, grill meat, and grow a perfect moustache, this book makes for perfect reading around the campfire. Parade
Just try to resist the myriad manly charms of . . . [Offerman s] memoir about woodworking, eating, acting, cultivating the perfect moustache, and seducing Megan Mullally. Vulture.com
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