Most of us are familiar with the greatest hits and legendary heroes of US history. In George Washington Is Cash Money , Cory O’Brien, author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes , does away with the pomp and circumstance and calls America’s history what it one long, violent soap opera. In his signature clever, crude, and cuss-ridden style, O’Brien reminds us

· Teddy Roosevelt stopped bullets with his manly chest

· Harriet Tubman avoided danger by having prophetic seizures.

· Joseph Smith invented Mormonism by staring into a hat full of rocks.

· Billy the Kid was finally defeated by the smell of fresh bacon.

And there’s plenty more Star Spangled stupidity where that came from.