Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team

Daniel O'Brien

Jun 2016 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

About this audiobook

Draft your own presidential fantasy team, based on these hilarious-but-true profiles of our past leaders, in this fun and funny illustrated book perfect for fans of How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous and Kid Presidents!
 
What if a zombie apocalypse or a robot uprising threatened the nation and you had the power to recruit some of the nation’s finest presidents to help save the day?
 
By studying the most successful squads in history, Daniel O’Brien has identified the perfect ingredients for a victorious team.
 
Which president would you choose for: the Brain, the Brawn, the Moral Compass, the Loose Cannon, and the Roosevelt?
 
Choose wisely—the fate of the world is in your hands!

"Aiming squarely at a sports-obsessed, statistics-mad and gross-out friendly audience, the madcap, utterly irreverent Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team may be on to something." —New York Times

"O'Brien takes a non-holds-barred approach to describing each man's strengths, weaknesses, and reputation . . . Rowntree's over-the-top illustrations picture ratchet up the humor even more." —PW

"A warts-and-all look at two centuries of presidential leadership and politics." —Kirkus Reviews

About the author

Daniel O’Brien is the head writer and creative director of video for Cracked.com, the most-viewed comedy website on the Internet. His work has been featured on Comedy Central and in Splitsider, Forbes, USA Today, and Huffington Post. Daniel is also the co-editor of You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News, a New York Times bestseller, and is the pop culture expert on History Channel’s Your Bleeped Up Brain. When Daniel isn’t researching wacky trivia on our presidents, he can be found playing with his dog, Jackson, who is named after a president. Your Presidential Fantasy Dream Team is his first book for young readers.
 
Winston Rowntree is a columnist at Cracked.com and the author of the webcomic Subnormality. He recently won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Web Comic of the Year for his comic Watching. His background in comics and interest in history inspired Winston to put an amusing and sometimes weird twist on the illustrations for each president. This is his first book for young readers.