*Birth of a Nation starts with a scenario drawn from the botched election of 2000 and spins it into a brilliantly absurd work of sharply pointed satire. Along the way the authors lay into a host of hot social and cultural issues - skewering white supremacists, black nationalists, and everyone in between - drawing real blood and real laughs in equal measure in this riotous send-up of American politics. *Source: Cover Flap