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Fat, Dumb, and Ugly

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Fat, Dumb, and Ugly  By Peter Strupp

Good Condition  (First Printing (Full Number Line). Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked. Soft cover is in Very Good Shape.)

The world's lone superpower...supreme guardian of democracy...and home of the blithely uninformed and epidemically obese. Welcome to America - pull up a chair, switch on the TV and grab a doughnut. Are Americans the last word in higher beings? Peter Strupp thinks not. A concerned citizen (and pitch-perfect humour scribe), Strupp is shocked and concerned by what he sees. It seems American aren't as thin, smart, and good-looking as they like to think they are. Packed with frightening statistics, FAT, DUMB AND UGLY takes readers on an eye-opening, laugh-out-loud, and at times horrifying tour of the numbers that shape the United States: * Annual amount Americans spend on beer: $25 billion * Percentage of Americans over 25 who are overweight: 80 * Pounds of sweets the average American eats a year: 20.7 * Percentage of Americans who believe their are aliens living among us: 25 * Pounds of rubbish generated by the average American: 1,570 * Increase in cosmetic surgery in the last decade: 200% In the bestselling tradition of THE DARWIN AWARDS and STUPID WHITE MEN, Peter Strupp's book is razor-sharp, real-world humour that sketches an all-too-convincing portrait of a self-satisfied nation of conspicuous consumers, fast-food fanatics and dumded-down dolts.


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