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A lavishly illustrated, witty, andoriginallook at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor ofThe New York Times Magazineand the longtime editor ofThe Nation,Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformativeand incendiarycartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, HonorDaumier, and Ralph Steadman.He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts.Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries.



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