308. Dave Barry with Brett Hamil: Class Clown: A Memoir

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You could argue that Dave Barry is the country's class clown, but did you know that he actually was elected class clown in high school? It's no wonder, then, that he's made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything. So how in the world does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate newspaper column read by millions of people? Dave Barry will explain. Barry draws from his latest book, Class Clown , to take us on a ride through his life so far, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment—there was no internet—and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. He began his journalism…