The New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons

Does our political system confer power or just raise powerlessness to the highest degree? That`s every citizen's hilarious quandary, and the New Yorker Book of Political Cartoons laughingly casts its own vote. The artists are masters at capturing the sublime (egos) and the ridiculous (rascals) with pen and ink, sketching the foibles of politics, politicians, and the electorate brilliantly.

Does our political system confer power or just raise powerlessness to the highest degree? That`s every citizen`s hilarious quandary, and each of these timeless New Yorker cartoons laughingly casts its own vote. The artists are masters at capturing the sublime (egos) and the ridiculous (rascals) with pen and ink, sketching the foibles of politics, politicians, and the electorate brilliantly.

As renowned humorist and satirist Christopher Buckley says in his wonderful introduction, 'In the end, it`s the New Yorker cartoonists, not the jabbering TV talking heads or pundits or spin doctors, who are the true gnostics of American politics, the keepers and tellers of its deepest truths.' All that and they`re funny, too!

BOOK DETAILS : CONTENTS INCLUDE :

Index of Artists

Ed Arno

Charles Barsotti

George Booth

Roz Chast

Tom Cheney

Frank Cotham

Michael Crawford

Leo Cullum

Richard Decker

Eldon Dedini

Alan Dunn

Joseph Farris

Ed Fisher

Dana Fradon

Edward Frascino

Mort Gerberg

Alex Gregory

William Hamilton

J.B. Handelsman

Stan Hunt

Edward Koren

Arnie Levin

Lee Lorenz

Robert Mankoff

Michael Maslin

Frank Modell

James Mulligan

Everett Opie

Gardner Rea

Donald Reilly

Mischa Richter

Victoria Roberts

Carl Rose

Charles Saxon

Bernard Schoenbaum

David Sipress

Peter Steiner

Mick Stevens

James Stevenson

Barney Tobey

Mike Twohy

Robert Weber

Gahan Wilson

Jack Ziegler