{"product_id":"an-underground-education-the-unauthorized-and-outrageous-supplement-to-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-art-sex-business-crime-science-medi-paperback","title":"An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, Medi - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Zacks\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOkay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than atoms, that \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e has something to do with a perfumed cookie, that the Monroe Doctrine means we get to take over small South American countries when we feel like it. But really, is this kind of knowledge going to make you the hit of the cocktail party, or the loser spending forty-five minutes examining the host's bookshelves? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWouldn't you rather learn things like how the invention of the bicycle affected the evolution of underwear? Or that the 1949 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a doctor who performed lobotomies with a household ice pick? Or how Catherine the Great really died? Or that heroin was sold over the counter not too long ago? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the truly well-rounded \"intellectual,\" nothing fascinates so much as the subversive, the contrarian, the suppressed, and the bizarre. Richard Zacks, auto-didact extraordinaire, has unloosed his admittedly strange mind and astonishing research abilities upon the entire spectrum of human knowledge, ferreting out endlessly fascinating facts, stories, photos, and images guaranteed to make you laugh, gasp in wonder, and occasionally shudder at the depths of human depravity. The result of his labors is this fantastically illustrated quasi-encyclopedia that provides alternative takes on art, business, crime, science, medicine, sex (lots of that), and many other facets of human experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImmensely entertaining, and arguably enlightening, \u003ci\u003eAn Underground Education\u003c\/i\u003e is the only book that explains the birth of motion pictures using photos of naked baseball players. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichard Zacks is the author of \u003ci\u003eHistory Laid Bare: Love, Sex and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding, \u003c\/i\u003e which was excerpted in classy magazines like \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and earned the attention of the even classier \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e which noted that \"Zacks specializes in the raunchy and perverse.\" The Georgia State Legislature voted on whether to ban the book from public libraries. He has studied Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew, and received the Phillips Classical Greek Award at the University of Michigan. He has also told his publisher that he made a living in Cairo cheating royalty from a certain Arab country at games of chance, although the claim remains unverified. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, The Village Voice, TV Guide, \u003c\/i\u003e and similarly diverse publications. Zacks is married and busy warping the minds of his two children, Georgia and Ziegfield. He resides in New York City, and can be reached via e-mail at rzacks@echonyc.com.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Zacks\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eChasing the Last Laugh\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIsland of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e An Underground Education\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHis writing has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand many other publications. He attended the University of Michigan and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. Born in Savannah, Georgia, Zacks now lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 9.21 x 7.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 20, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53337161007469,"sku":"9780385483766","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/p5xM3-Kmyx9780385483766.webp?v=1778926410","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/an-underground-education-the-unauthorized-and-outrageous-supplement-to-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-art-sex-business-crime-science-medi-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}