World's shortest book

World's shortest book

World's shortest book was a joke template popularized in late 1960s. The template consists of a book title and an author, for example, "Theory of Racial Harmony", by George Wallace". The gist of the joke is that George Wallace was famous of his racial bigotry. [Randy Allen Harris (1993) "The Linguistics Wars", ISBN 019509834X, [http://books.google.com/books?id=F8Axr7XBzXEC&pg=PA201&dq=%22joke+templates%22+-wikipedia&sig=0cGL9h3e23RSK2JNcmglIKSIzDA#PPA202,M1 p. 201] ]

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