Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team, Daniel OBrien
Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team, Daniel OBrien
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Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team

Author: Daniel O'Brien

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 6 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2016

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!
 
What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the day?
 
By studying the most successful squads in history, Daniel O’Brien has identified the perfect ingredients for a victorious team.
 
Which president would you choose for: the Brain, the Brawn, the Moral Compass, the Loose Cannon, and the Roosevelt?
 
Choose wisely—the fate of the world is in your hands!

"Aiming squarely at a sports-obsessed, statistics-mad and gross-out friendly audience, the madcap, utterly irreverent Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team may be on to something." —New York Times

"O'Brien takes a non-holds-barred approach to describing each man's strengths, weaknesses, and reputation . . . Rowntree's over-the-top illustrations picture ratchet up the humor even more." —PW

"A warts-and-all look at two centuries of presidential leadership and politics." —Kirkus Reviews

About The Author

Daniel O’Brien is the head writer and creative director of video for Cracked.com, the most-viewed comedy website on the Internet. His work has been featured on Comedy Central and in Splitsider, Forbes, USA Today, and Huffington Post. Daniel is also the co-editor of You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News, a New York Times bestseller, and is the pop culture expert on History Channel’s Your Bleeped Up Brain. When Daniel isn’t researching wacky trivia on our presidents, he can be found playing with his dog, Jackson, who is named after a president. Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team is his first book for young readers.   Winston Rowntree is a columnist at Cracked.com and the author of the webcomic Subnormality. He recently won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year for his comic Watching. His background in comics and interest in history inspired Winston to put an amusing and sometimes weird twist on the illustrations for each president. This is his first book for young readers.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on February 19, 2024

Look for books everywhere. If you see books in a store, go and look, and pick the most nonsensical ones you can find. Found this gem in a Dollar Tree, and it’s the best $1.07 I’ve ever spent. I’ve no interest in politics. None. But I salivate over the promise of a good fact, and boy does this book d......more

Goodreads review by David on January 02, 2017

The humorous anecdotes O'Brien tells makes learning about the presidents an enjoyable experience. It's a good starter piece to build upon on your journey to discovering the presidents. I only find it slightly disconcerting that I'm the only one that believes Martin Van Buren is possibly the inspirat......more