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Tim Rowland
Politics Weird-o-Pedia
The Ultimate Book of Surprising, Strange, and Incredibly Bizarre Facts about Politics
Reeks: Weird-o-Pedia
Tim Rowland
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€11,17
Government
and
politics
might
seem
twisted
today,
but
they’ve
always
been
strange.There’s
something
about
public
office
that,
throughout
time,
has
transcended
normalcy.
Politics
Weird-o-Pedia
presents
some
of
the
oddest
and
most
interesting
political
absurdities
and
tidbits
from
around
the
world,
from
Peter
the
Great’s
tax
on
beards
to
a
lawmaker’s
mistress
whom
he
kept
on
the
congressional
payroll
despite
her
admission
that
“I
can't
type,
I
can't
file,
I
can't
even
answer
the
phone.”Eminences
include:Some
of
America’s
Founding
Fathers
wanted
to
jail
newspaper
reporters.A
Mongolian
conqueror
liked
to
build
cement
walls
out
of
the
bodies
of
his
vanquished
opponents
(while
they
were
still
alive).An
all-female
resistance
to
nuclear
missiles
in
Britain
resulted
in
a
protest
that
lasted
for
nineteen
years—long
after
the
missiles
were
gone.Politics
Weird-o-Pedia
doesn’t
stand
still
for
a
minute.
It
is
intriguing,
funny,
and
occasionally
startling.
It
is
more
than
a
collection
of
trivia,
adding
bits
of
context
and
historical
vignettes
that
make
it
clear
that
no
matter
how
dysfunctional
politics
and
government
might
seem
today—we’ve
been
through
it
all
many
times before.
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