by Adam Carolla
First published 2010
Adam Carolla has reached his breaking point with modern America's absurdities. He watches a World War II veteran get carded at a Phoenix airport bar and sees everything wrong with our culture. Society has banned peanut butter sandwiches, turned public restrooms into disasters, and handed power to minimum wage workers on power trips. Carolla argues we've traded common sense and backbone for hand sanitizer and lawyers. The Oprah watchers and their whipped husbands have neutered America. Between his cultural complaints, Carolla shares personal stories from his Hollywood life. He describes Sunday football games at Jimmy Kimmel's house and his struggles raising children in a society gone soft. He recounts his entertainment industry breakthrough and daily battles against political correctness. Carolla believes America is becoming feminized and weak. His comedic rage targets helicopter parenting, corporate policies, and cultural sensitivity. This is his manifesto against a nation losing its masculine edge to oversensitive bureaucrats and crystal rubbing suburbanites.
Genres: humor, american, non-fiction, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: comedic-rage, manifesto
256 pages · Hardcover · Crown Archetype