The Real Thing: A Guide to Separating the Genuine from the Ersatz, the Man from the Boys, and the Wheat...
- ISBN-10
- 0385146361
- ISBN-13
- 9780385146364
- Series
- The Real Thing
- Category
- American wit and humor
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Doubleday Books
- Author
- Kurt Andersen
Description
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