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Alexandra Petri

Biography

Alexandra Petri

Alexandra Petri is a humorist and columnist for the Washington Post and author of ALEXANDRA PETRI'S US HISTORY and NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY, a Thurber Prize finalist. Her satire has also appeared in McSweeney’s and the New Yorker’s Daily Shouts and Murmurs. She lives in Washington, DC.

Alexandra Petri

Books by Alexandra Petri

Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)
by Alexandra Petri - History, Humor, Nonfiction

As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn’t learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we’re going to fail! Maybe it’s time for a new textbook. ALEXANDRA PETRI’S US HISTORY contains a lost (invented!) history of America (a history for people disappointed that the only president whose weird sex letters we have is Warren G. Harding). Petri’s “historical fan fiction” draws on real events and completely absurd fabrications to create a laugh-out-loud, irreverent takedown of our nation’s complicated past.