The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on Comedy Central, is one of the funniest shows on TV today. It is a sharp, biting satire of mainstream media (MSM) and modern day American politics. I can only imagine what it’s like if you’re not current on world events and you watch only this show instead of the MSM for your news. You probably have a very inaccurate, twisted look at the world. However, if you do keep up, it is a great way to look at everything in a new light. The Daily Show attacks extremism, government bureaucracy, nothng is sacrosanct. And it’s got balls too, unlike the MSM.

That said, they put a book out recently titled America: Democracy Inaction. I haven’t bought the book yet, but I think I should now. I downloaded the audiobook from Audible a few months ago and just today began listening to it.

Narrated by Stewart himself, the book is a hysterical look on America & the history of democracy in the vein of the Daily Show. As inaccurate as it can get at times (though it contains a wealth of historical and political facts everyone should know), I wish every American listened to or read this book as required reading. It pokes fun of the fact that we hold the founding fathers and the documents they created on such high pedestals as to be untouchable and without defect. The book takes jabs at the way we simplify history and politics to pointlessness.

Go out, buy this book, and be prepared to laugh yourself silly all while getting a fresh perspective on America. Be careful, you just might come out of it all less worked up about issues, and maybe even feeling a bit more patriotic.