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A HISTORY OF THE USA by Mike Donovan 


LINCOLN                                          370                       130,156
PEARL TO GUADALCANAL               244                         97,326
JFK                                                   238                         96,448
POLAND TO PEARL                          213                         88,423
FDR 1933-39                                    171                        70,665       
WILSON                                            153                        59,192
REVOLUTION                                    149                        60,375
FDR 1944                                          128                        53,736
TRUMAN                                            122                        50,533
SOURCES (BOOKS)                           127                        48,886
BUSH II (W)                                     115                        48,639
NIXON                                                 98                        38,875
CLINTON                                             97                        39,664
LBJ                                                      97                        37,304
TR                                                        90                        37,473
FDR 1943                                            88                        37,226
CARTER                                               87                        36,605
BUSH 1 (GHW)                                    83                        34,058
WASHINGTON                                     82                        36,692
FDR 1945                                             81                        33,241
REAGAN                                               79                        31,298
IKE                                                       77                        30,908
BUCHANAN                                          74                        24,451
JOHNSON (ANDREW)                          64                        25,119
OBAMA                                                 63                        26,326
MCKINLEY                                            58                        22,964
FORD                                                    57                        23,311
GRANT                                                  54                        20,396
HARDING                                              52                        20,596
COLONIAL                                             50                        18,831
TAFT                                                     45                         17,634
HARRISON (BENJAMIN)                      43                         15,969
PIERCE                                                  41                         15,707
MADISON                                              40                         15,347
JEFFERSON                                            41                         14,961
HOOVER                                                36                         14,401
ADAMS  JOHN                                       36                         13,792
POLK                                                     35                         13,532
CLEVELAND (2ND TERM)                      35                        13,419
JACKSON                                               35                        13,043
COOLIDGE                                             33                        12,315
CLEVELAND (FIRST TERM)                   33                        12,198
TAYLOR                                                 31                        12,123
FILLMORE                                             26                          8,795
ADAMS (JOHN QUINCY)                       25                          9,245   
HAYES                                                   24                          9,308
ARTHUR                                                 25                          8,387
MONROE                                                22                          7,709
TYLER                                                    21                          7,109
VAN BUREN                                           19                          6,928
GARFIELD                                              18                          6,180
PREFACE                                                11                          5,056


   Sorry about the typos! This is a work in progress. I would like to publish this in e-form (polished by an editor!) as one giant book, then develop each chapter into a hardcover with lots of maps.

  Mike


Entertorian
1994 Boston Herald Profile
Historian not boringman
Focus and Concentration
    As you can see from this 1994 profile article I've been determined to write this history book for a long time. This was 10 years before I wrote the first sentence of the book in 2004. At this point in 94 I was in the hard core study phase where I was reading general textbooks histories of the USA every day for hours a day. But I knew where it was all going. I didn't begin to write until I felt I had done a responsible amount of reading study first.
   I've been working on the manuscript every day since August of 2004 and have come a long way. In fact, the body of work has reached and surpassed my highest expectations when I spoke to "Deano" for this piece in 1994. I continue to study, but now I write after I am done with a study session.
   As of now it is self published on the net, but this is a mere resting spot half way up the mountain. I am definitely an aspiring author in search of an agent, an editor and a publisher. It's not really a self-published work as is, although technically speaking, it is "published." Each chapter is a separate book in development, plus an abridged one volume of about 900 pages might work too.
   The driving force behind this is wanting to make a more positive contribution with my life than merely telling jokes and making half drunk people laugh in smoke filled night clubs. Nothing wrong with that, and I've had a blast, but, to me, "comedy is like ready money, it serves its time." Jokes from 50 years ago rarely can still connect today and the same will hold in the future for today's comedy. But a good history book potentially still counts for something, long after today's hot sit-com is forgotten. And if I can write a history book that is more readable than most because I come from the streets, and it shows, then I have combined the positives of both the stand-up life and the study life into an original personalized work of art and science.
   I don't try to make every paragraph funny. The un-funniest thing in the world is when someone tries too hard to be funny. I let the humor happen as a natural spice. Sometime there are three pages in a row without a trace of a joke. I think this makes the humor more effective. The reader is off-guard from following something genuinely interesting and the humor comes in from the sidelines.
  
  (The quote about "ready money" is from historian Frank Vandiver.)

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