A Parody Outline of History (Large Print Edition)

Donald Ogden Stewart (1894-1980) was an American author and screenwriter. He graduated from Yale University in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I. After the war he started to write and found success with A Parody Outline of History (1921), a satire of The Outline of History (1920) by H. G. Wells. This led him to becoming a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Around that time a friend of his got him interested in theatre and he became a noted playwright on Broadway in the 1920s. In 1924, he wrote Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad for the publishing house George H. Doran. It was a snarky send up of the ugly American tourist. He became interested in adapting some of his plays to film, but on first entering Hollywood he had to adapt the plays of others as his own were initially shelved. As World War II approached, he became a member of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, which, during the Second Red Scare, was suspected of being a Communist front. His other works include: Perfect Behavior: A Parody Outline of Etiquette (1922), The Crazy Fool (1925), Father William (1929) and Rebound (1930). Title......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 2 A CRITICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN HISTORY In the Manner of William Lyon Phelps......Page 3 CRISTOFER COLOMBO: A COMEDY OF DISCOVERY In the Manner of James Branch Cabell......Page 5 I......Page 12 II......Page 13 III......Page 15 IV......Page 16 VII......Page 17 VIII......Page 18 XI......Page 19 THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald......Page 20 LETTERS OF A MINUTE MAN In the Manner of Ring Lardner......Page 25 CHAPTER SIX THE WHISKEY REBELLION. In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton W. Burgess......Page 30 CHAPTER SEVEN HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT In the Manner of Harold Bell Wright......Page 33 CHAPTER EIGHT CUSTER'S LAST STAND In the Manner of Edith Wharton......Page 39 SCENE 1......Page 42 SCENE 2......Page 43 SCENE 3......Page 44 SCENE 1......Page 46 SCENE 2......Page 48 SCENE 3......Page 49 Were there not some amid all that fashionable throng in whom ideals of purity and true womanhood lived-- some who cared enough for the sacredness of real love to cry upon this hollow mockery that was being used to ensnare the simple, honest soldier? There was only one, and she was at that moment entering the drawing room for the purpose of being presented to the general. Need I name her.