This book explores how comedian Stephen Colbert's satiric views of American life have captured the imagination of viewers around the world―and sharpened these individuals' own critical interpretations and opinions on current events.
Stephen Colbert may be "just a comedian"―one not all audiences find funny, especially among those who have been mercilessly lampooned by him―but there is no arguing that the condescending, bombastic, and largely ignorant pundit he plays on Comedy Central has brought awareness of current events and political happenings to a substantially larger portion of the American population.
The only available biography on Stephen Colbert, this book examines his life story and details how he became one of the most influential people on current American culture. Beginning with coverage of Colbert's childhood, the chapters discuss his education, highlighting his interest in drama; describe his introduction to the world of comedy; review his contributions as a "correspondent" on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart; and focus on Colbert's accomplishments and antics as the star of his faux news program that debuted in the fall of 2005, The Colbert Report.
 • Photographs depicting Stephen Colbert liven the text
• A bibliography supplies additional resources, such as websites and magazine and journal articles

Stephen Colbert: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Andronik, Catherine M.

Arts & Literature

Greenwood

Recounts Montgomery's childhood in rural Canada at the turn of the century--a childhood similar to that of her creation--and describes her struggle to become a writer without support or encouragement from friends or family.

Kindred Spirit: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Creator of Anne of Green Gables

Children's Books

Biographies

Atheneum

A profile of entrepreneurial showman Phineas T. Barnum details his personal life, ambitious rise from poverty, and spectacular show business and circus career. By the author of Quest for a King.

Prince of Humbugs: A Life of P. T. Barnum

Teen & Young Adult

Even though her nephew Tuthomosis III destroyed almost all evidence of her triumphant reign, archaeologists have been able to recreate the amazing and unconventional life of Egypt's only successful female pharaoh who used a male title, wore men's clothing and a beard, and kept her people happy and content, in a lavishly illustrated biography.

Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself

Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy (Great Minds of Science)

Discusses the life and career of the sixteenth-century Polish astronomer who was the first man to assert, in print, the theory that the Earth moves around the sun.

Enslow Pub Inc

Discusses the life and career of the sixteenth-century Polish astronomer who was the first man to assert, in print, the theory that the Earth moves around the sun.

A biography of fifteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that all the planets, including the earth, revolved around the sun.

Enslow Publishing

Copernicus: Genius of Modern Astronomy (Genius Scientists and Their Genius Ideas)

"A biography of fifteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus who theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that all the planets, including the earth, revolved around the sun. Includes related activities for readers"--

Copernicus worked with primitive scientific instruments to prove that Earth revolved around the sun. The idea of Earth circling the sun is universally accepted today, but this was not always the case. Centuries ago, it was widely believed that the earth stood still and the sun moved. At first, Copernicus was denounced and ridiculed for this belief. Later, scientists with more advanced instruments proved that Earth did indeed revolve around the sun. Many of our modern advances in science would not have been possible without the heliocentric theory of Copernicus.

Meet the rebellious young poets who brought about a literary revolution Rock stars may think they invented sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but the Romantic poets truly created the mold. In the early 1800s, poetry could land a person in jail. Those who tried to change the world through their poems risked notoriety--or courted it. Among the most subversive were a group of young writers known as the Romantics: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Cole-ridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. These rebels believed poetry should express strong feelings in ordinary language, and their words changed literature forever. Wildly Romantic is a smart, sexy, and fascinating look at these original bad boys--and girls.

Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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Stephen Colbert: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Kindred Spirit: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery, Creator of Anne of Green Gables

Prince of Humbugs: A Life of P. T. Barnum

Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself

Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy (Great Minds of Science)

Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy (Great Minds of Science)

Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy (Great Minds of Science)

Copernicus: Genius of Modern Astronomy (Genius Scientists and Their Genius Ideas)

Copernicus: Genius of Modern Astronomy (Genius Scientists and Their Genius Ideas)

Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets: The Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous