Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News Into Art
Review Quotes: "Close to a perfect biography."-- BOSTON GLOBE Review Quotes: "A stunning achievement."-- NEW YORK SUN Review Quotes: "Like Jimi Hendrix overturning the national anthem at Woodstock, Trudeau inverted the comic strip itself ......
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Review Quotes: "Close to a perfect biography." -- BOSTON GLOBEReview Quotes: "A stunning achievement." -- NEW YORK SUNReview Quotes: "Like Jimi Hendrix overturning the national anthem at Woodstock, Trudeau inverted the comic strip itself ... Trudeau Doonesbury documents this achievement with thoroughness and affection." -- LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKSReview Quotes: "A masterful biography . . . Riveting . . . This exceptional study is as sharp and amusing as its subject." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewReview Quotes: "Exemplary and revelatory job exploring the cartoonist's life and influences." -- AIRMAILReview Quotes: "It's possible Trudeau doesn't have any skeletons, even plastic ones, in his cupboard . . . Kendall's book works anyway; it has a good story to tell. I devoured it in two or three sittings, as if it were an ideal bag of popcorn. This book will be a many-sided nostalgia trip for anyone who's read 'Doonesbury' in something like real time, and a mind-popping introduction to Trudeau's oeuvre for tykes who did not." -- THE NEW YORK TIMESReview Quotes: "The nation's first investigative cartoonist, Garry Trudeau has been both breaking stories and getting Americans to laugh at themselves for over half a century. In this fast-paced, engaging narrative, Joshua Kendall traces the arc of Trudeau's exemplary career. Kendall's entertaining book will provide readers with both a deeper understanding of recent American history and many smiles." -- TOM BROKAW, anchor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004 and author of the #1 New York Times bestselBiographical Note: Joshua C. Kendall was born in New York City. He received his BA (summa cum laude) from Yale, where he studied comparative literature. An award-winning freelance journalist, he has written on history, politics, biography, health care, and neuroscience for many national magazines and newspapers, including BusinessWeek, Mother Jones, The Nation, Politico, Slate, Time, Wired, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Boston, where he has ample opportunity to indulge his love of squash. He is currently an associate fellow of Yale's Trumbull College. His previous books include First Dads, The Man Who Made Lists, and The Forgotten Founding Father. Review Quotes: "A long-needed cultural history, the story of how a comic strip influenced political life, and vice versa, ... Plus, it's a handsome book, full of illustrative strips." -- CHICAGO TRIBUNEReview Quotes: "A handsome production of a book about a compelling and wildly successful career of writing and art, Trudeau Doonesbury shows the past six decades of American life through the eyes and imagination of an impressive witness." -- WALL STREET JOURNALReview Quotes: "Kendall's compelling biography of one of a generation's greatest chroniclers will resonate with readers, especially those who grew up seeing the characters and storylines in their daily papers." -- LIBRARY JOURNALReview Quotes: "Garry Trudeau, the most perceptive and delightful social satirist of our times, chronicled and defined a generation. In this well-reported and -researched book, Joshua Kendall helps us understand the roots of his humor and insight." -- WALTER ISAACSONReview Quotes: "Through Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau emerged as one of the most sophisticated and insightful explainers of our generation's vision of America. This excellent biography describes Garry as he was when I hung out with him as a teenager, and when I reconnected with him decades later. Kendall's finely wrought portrait will introduce the rest of America to the funny and kind truth-teller whom I have been proud to call a friend for over sixty years." -- HOWARD DEANReview Quotes: "Garry Trudeau, one of the essential voices of his generation, is now the subject of an essential biography. Joshua Kendall tells the story with everything his subject brought to his own comic art: style, wit, passion, intelligence, and deep reporting. No joke: This is a first-rate work, every bit as smart as it is entertaining." -- JONATHAN EIG, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A LifeReview Quotes: "Joshua Kendall has written an intimate life of Garry Trudeau that doubles as a history of modern media. Tracing Trudeau's path from campus upstart to Pulitzer Prize-winning pioneer, Kendall shows how he reinvented not just the comics page but political journalism itself. With the rigor of a historian and the joy of a fan, Kendall makes a persuasive case that satire, done right, is a public service. This is cultural history with a cartoonist's timing: brisk, funny, and unexpectedly moving. Doonesbury doesn't just skewer the powerful; it keeps faith with readers who crave the truth--and a laugh." -- CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE, #1 New York Times bestselling novelistReview Quotes: "An exemplary biography, not just of a single American genius, but of the part of the baby boom generation that never stopped struggling to make the world better than they found it." -- RICK PERLSTEIN, New York Times bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible BridgeReview Quotes: "In Trudeau and Doonesbury, Joshua Kendall offers a compelling biography of one of our nation's greatest journalists, a man who can distill an essay's worth of analysis, critique, and satire into a four-panel comic strip. Kendall explores Garry Trudeau's entire life, from his early comics at Yale--where he satirized his fellow student George W. Bush--to his nationwide fame. His outstanding book helps us understand how Trudeau became a spokesman for our generation, someone who spoke truth to power while compelling us to laugh along at life's many absurdities." -- HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard UniversityPublisher Marketing: "A compelling biography of one of our nation's greatest journalists. Outstanding." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "Well-reported and -researched."--Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk The definitive account of the life and work of Garry Trudeau, creator of the massively popular Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoon Doonesbury , based on archival sources and original interviews, including with Trudeau himself, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 cartoons and images. Drawing on extensive interviews with Trudeau, his friends, fellow cartoonists, prominent journalists, and even politicians who were mocked in the strip, as well as previously unmined archival materials, Trudeau & Doonesbury serves as an alternative history of the last 50 years of American life and is an entertaining romp through Trudeau's singular career. Biographer Joshua Kendall tells the story of the cartoonist and what drove him to put pen to paper. He traces Trudeau's boyhood in the Adirondack Mountains, his teenage angst in prep school, and his formative years at Yale, where he began drawing his iconic strip. And he shows the changing world it reflected; Doonesbury began appearing in papers nationwide in 1970, and big events, from Watergate to the war in Vietnam, fueled its popularity and its significance. For more than 50 years, Doonesbury has helped drive the national conversation. The first comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize, Garry Trudeau's sprawling narrative featuring a host of beloved characters has reflected America back to itself, capturing the highlights and lowlights of American politics and culture with wit and penetrating insight. And as Doonesbury's characters aged alongside their creator, Trudeau became one of the preeminent chroniclers of the Baby Boom generation. A unique and compelling biography of both the individual behind Doonesbury and the times he has chronicled, Trudeau & Doonesbury is also a lavishly illustrated, full-color coffee table book featuring more than 200 cartoons, making it perfect for sharing, gifting, and displaying. Review Citations:
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