{"product_id":"my-baboons-padding-around","title":"My Baboons Padding Around","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Stein\u003c\/strong\u003e’s work, which he describes as \u003ci\u003eje ne sais quoi,\u003c\/i\u003e has appeared in \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review, Exposition Review, Wraparound South, Burningword, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e Stein wrote the screenplay \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003efor the Steve Martin\/Goldie Hawn film \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHousesitter\u003c\/i\u003e (Imagine Films\/Universal, 1992) and plays produced at Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eIn nonfiction, he is the author of the \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHow the States Got Their Shapes \u003c\/i\u003e(HarperCollins, 2008), which became the basis of a History Channel series by the same name, followed by \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eHow the States Got Their Shapes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eToo: The People behind the Borderlines \u003c\/i\u003e(Smithsonian Books, 2011), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAmerican Panic: A History of Who Scares Us and Why \u003c\/i\u003e(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eVice Capades: Sex, Drugs, and Bowling from the Pilgrims to the Present \u003c\/i\u003e(Potomac Books\/ University of Nebraska Press, 2017), and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eThe Presidential Fringe: Questing and Jesting for the Oval Office \u003c\/i\u003e(Potomac Books\/University of Nebraska Press, 2020).\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 66 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (June 19, 2026)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53665282392248,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0013\/0800\/0329\/files\/stein_front.jpg?v=1782662205","url":"https:\/\/kelsaybooks.com\/products\/my-baboons-padding-around","provider":"Kelsay Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}