The Great American Parade

The Great American Parade is a political novel by Robert Burrows that achieved moderate success only after being described in a national newspaper as the worst novel ever published in the English language

Burrows, a retired University of Wisconsin-Whitewater English Professor, self-published the book, his first novel, in a run of 2000 copies. Initial distribution was 400 copies.2

The book, which turns a jaundiced eye on George W. Bush's tax policies, centers around the conceit that the President calls all Americans to march in a great parade in Washington DC - in order of wealth, with the poorest citizens at the front and the richest in the rear. A cadre of idealistic college students ultimately foils the President's plans to turn America into a two-tier society.

The book attracted little notice until Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten described the novel as "...a wretchedly terrible product that shames the American publishing industry."3 Since then, the novel has attracted a small following, being sold through print on demand technology.

External links

• Author's web site
• Full text of The Great American Parade
• Review of The Great American Parade
• Review of The Great American Parade
• MetaFilter thread on The Great American Parade
• Press release from the book's internet publisher