“This is the only essential anthology to come along in the 21st century. Had William Burroughs edited short fiction by Howard Zinn, the result would fit snugly between these covers. Be prepared to experience American history in an entirely new way.”

—Jaime Manrique

“History may be written by the victors, but neither the official story nor the corrupted sorts who foist it upon us can vanquish the truth—especially the truth produced by lying of the artful and big-hearted variety. Hooray for this hilarious and pointed fictional history! Hooray for the missing chunks, too!”

—Sam Lipsyte

“A&E Biography big-timers are either absent or ass-out in this short-story collection, a people’s history that mixes reverent with the absurd. Alexander Chee wind-walks with our Chinese discovers, David Rees gets his gets his Reconstruction on, and Adam Mansbach rips out the roots of pop-cult colonialism-topping a freewheeling first hald that evokes the broken souls of manifest destiny…. Peruvian writer Daniel Alarcon finally flushes us with a future civil war (next year, even) where rebs steal a presidential limb and the missing chunk becomes America itself.”
— The Village Voice