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...doubts lingered about Baker's staying power, his newest compendium--Poor Russell's Almanac, his eighth book--should dispel them. A "retooled" and "retrofitted" edition of his 1972 version with the same name, the Almanac is less overtly political than other Baker books such as So This is Depravity. That work, Baker addicts will recall, answered the Big Questions--queries like "Is it true that [former president] Zachary Taylor liked to be spanked by older women?" (no) and "Wasn't George Washington once treated for an Oedipus complex?" (yes, but it was accidental), Instead, the revamped Almanac offers an hysterical...
...Almanac's satires nail a broad range of fictitious characters that represent much of what is "establishment" in America. Underlying many of the scenarios that Baker concocts is a fundamental cynicism toward the nation's more materialistic values and the routines they create. He observes...
...growing list of literary ways to waste our national forests. Sailing, a humorous dictionary for the boating enthusiast, offers knee-slapping definitions; "current", for example, means "tidal flow that carries a boat away from its desired destination, or toward a hazard." Pretty funny, huh? And the all-new Bathroom Almanac aims at giving you a digestible amount of trivia every day. With books like these, who needs toilet paper...
...Harvard, wrote occasionally for The Crimson's editorial board and graduated magna cum laude in 1966. He passed through Harvard Law School three years later and then spent two years clerking for a federal judge in Detroit. But the information bug never left him. And the idea of the Almanac proved irresistible. "It's the sort of thing I always wanted to read, so I wrote...
...first, says Barone, he was a little-known figure on Capitol Hill. But as his book--with its circulation of about 50,000--has begun to become quite well-known in Washington, especially amoung journalists, he finds "they all treat me very nicely." The politicians didn't need an almanac to teach them that lesson...