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Henry Beard

Henry Beard attended Harvard University and was a member of the Harvard Lampoon. He went on to found the National Lampoon with Douglas Kenney and served as its editor during the magazine’s heyday in the 1970s. He has written numerous bestselling humor books, including Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life and (with Christopher Cerf) The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook.

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Encyclopedia Paranoiaca
Encyclopedia Paranoiaca By: Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf
This edition: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publication date: November 20, 2012
IGNORE THIS BOOK AT YOUR PERIL! Did you know that carrots cause blindness and bananas are radioactive? That too many candlelight dinners can cause cancer? And not only is bottled water a veritable petri dish of biohazards (so...
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Other Formats: eBook, Trade Paperback
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Golf
Golf An Unofficial and Unauthorized History of the World's Most Preposterous Sport By: Henry Beard
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: April 6, 2012
• An ingenious mix of facts and flights of fancy: The history of golf begins in 732 AD, when a relic of St. Andrew—patron saint of Scotland and of golf—was found wearing a copper arthritis bracelet. And who...
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The Dick Cheney Code
The Dick Cheney Code A Parody By: Henry Beard
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: September 7, 2004
A bestselling, Harvard-bred humorist plans to knock out a slapdash, quick-buck parody of a wildly successful, head-spinning, clue-laden thriller in a flagrant attempt to cash in on the publishing sensation of the decade, but...
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