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American Laughter, American Fury: Humor and the Making of a White Man's Democracy, 1750–1850 By Eran A. Zelnik Material:Soft Cover but also expand to theHow humor helped white men cast the United States as a nation in which only they were entitled to citizenship. A joke is never just a jokenot even in the eighteenth century. In American Laughter, American Fury, Eran A. Zelnik offers a cultural history of early America that shows how humor among white men served to define and construct not only whiteness and masculinity but also American political culture and democracy more generally. Zelnik traces the