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Stephen Colbert's Books

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Oct.02.2012
Book store nation, in the history of mankind there has never been a greater country than America. You could say we're the #1 nation at being the best at greatness. But as perfect as America is in every single way, America is broken! And we can't exchange it because we're 236 years past the 30-day return window. Look around--we don't make anything anymore, we've mortgaged our...
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May.08.2012
Stephen is excited to celebrate the publication of his first children's book, I Am a Pole (And So Can You!). It is the heartfelt tale of a pole searching for truth and meaning in its life and is certainly the most glorious illustrated celebration of pole opportunities available anywhere in hardcover! Maurice Sendak described it best: "The sad thing is, I like it!" And Stephen...
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Oct.01.2007
Congratulations—just by opening the cover of this book you became twenty-five percent more patriotic. From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other twenty-three and a half hours of your day. I Am America (and So Can You!) contains all of the opinions that Stephen doesn't have time to shoehorn into...
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007
Oct.01.2007
Stephen Colbert contributed to this lively volume of The Best American Nonrequired Reading. It boasts the best in fiction, nonfiction, alternative comics, screenplays, blogs, and anything else, compiled by Dave Eggers and students from his San Francisco writing center. Other contributors include Alison Bechdel, Scott Carrier, Lee Klein, and Matt Klam.
Wigfield
Apr.01.2004
Wigfield is a small bucolic hideaway, situated in front of a massive dam which is about to be torn down by the state government to restore the salmon run. Wigfield's only hope lies in the self-righteous, self-involved "journalist" Russell Hokes, who arrives hoping to capture the quiet dignity of the disappearing American Small Town. However, Wigfield is nether quiet nor...