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What Fools These Mortals Be! The Story of PUCK Political Cartoons HCDJ 1st Ed
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- Personalize
- No
- Era
- 20th Century
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Modified Item
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781631400469
- Book Title
- What Fools These Mortals Be! : the Story of Puck
- Item Length
- 11.3in
- Publisher
- Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Humor
- Topic
- Topic / Politics, Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
- Item Width
- 12.3in
- Item Weight
- 91 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
About this product
Product Information
A lavish coffee table book devoted to the most important political satire and cartoon magazine in American history. Published from 1877 to 1918, Puck was an American original-the country's first and most successful humor magazine, the first magazine to publish color lithographs on a weekly basis, and for nearly forty years, a training ground and showcase for some of the country's most talented cartoonists, led by its co-founder, Joseph Keppler. The weekly journal's deft caricatures and pointed commentary made it a political force to be reckoned with. It is credited with single-handedly thwarting the third-term ambitions of Ulysses S. Grant in 1880 and electing Grover Cleveland to the presidency in 1884-or at least, by its devastating "Tattooed Man" series, denying it to James G. Blaine. And Puck did it with art-lavish color full-page and two-page centerspread cartoons. With nearly 300 color plates in an oversized 12? x 11? format, What Fools These Mortals Be is the first opportunity for many readers to see so many cartoons from Puck reproduced in color and at a large size. Written and selected by Michael Alexander Kahn and Richard Samuel West with reproductions made from their unique collections and supplemented by the Library of Congress, this book is organized by subject matter, reflecting the most important issues of the day. Each cartoon is accompanied by an explanatory caption, placing the work in historical perspective. Many of the issues that dominated Puck's pages more than one hundred years ago continue to dominate the political debate today. During its illustrious career Puck published more than two thousand numbered issues. When, after four decades, it ceased publication, The Literary Digest printed an appropriate epitaph- "Puck had no real rival in its best days. Fallen from its fine estate, it has left no successor."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Idea & Design Works, LLC
ISBN-10
1631400460
ISBN-13
9781631400469
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201689757
Product Key Features
Book Title
What Fools These Mortals Be! : the Story of Puck
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Politics, Form / Comic Strips & Cartoons
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Humor
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11.3in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
12.3in
Item Weight
91 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
13-16
Lc Classification Number
Pn6727
Reviews
"Richly illustrated, edifying and expertly curated...[a] mesmerizing compendium of full-color political caricature." - The Wall Street Journal "Many of Puck 's issues remain bang up to date, if sometimes mutated." - The Daily Beast "What Fools These Mortals Be!," is a glorious compilation of some of the magazine's best cartoons of a distinctly (wait for it) puckish nature. IDW Publishing, along with Dean Mullaney's Library of American Comics, have produced yet another brilliant volume that deserves to be lovingly displayed on bookshelves and coffee tables." - The Washington Times "One of the outstanding books of the year" - Print Magazine "It is hard to overestimate the political influence of Puck...during the last two decades of the 19th Century. It was greater than all newspapers combined." --Stephen Hess, The Ungentlemanly Art "[Puck] created a genre and established a tradition." -- David Sloane, American Humor Magazine and Comic Periodicals
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-478254
Dewey Decimal
051
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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