Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Cuppy, Will frey50

The Decline and Fall of practically everybody Will Cuppy; Edited by Fred Feldkamp; Drawings by William Steig - New York Henry Holt and Company 1950 - 230 p.

Part 1: It seems there were two Egyptians -- Cheops, or Khufu -- Hatshepsut -- Part II: Ancient Greeks and worse -- Pericles -- Alexander the Great -- Hannibal -- Cleopatra -- Nero -- Part III: Strange bedfellows -- Attila the Hun -- Charlemagne -- Lady Godiva -- Lucrezia Borgia -- Philip the Sap -- Part IV: A few greats -- Louis XIV -- Madame du Barry -- Peter the Great -- Catherine the Great -- Frederick the Great -- Part V: Merrie England -- William the Conqueror -- Henry VIII -- Elizabeth -- George III -- Part VI: Now we're getting somewhere -- Leif the lucky -- Christopher Columbus -- Montezuma -- Captain John Smith -- Miles Standish -- Part VII: They all had their fun -- Some royal pranks -- Some royal stomachs.

A humorous look at history


American wit and humor

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