Mean sheets: Political cartoons

by M.G. Lord

Item is in good condition, little wear for its age.

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

M. G. Lord is a cultural critic and investigative journalist. She is the author of the widely praised books Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science, a family memoir about Cold War aerospace culture, and Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. Her latest book, is The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. With Shannon Halwes, she is co-writing the libretto for composer Laura Karpman’s One-Ten, an opera commissioned by the L. A. Opera about the 110 Freeway on its 70th anniversary. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and that paper’s Arts & Leisure section, and her work has also appeared in such publications as Travel + Leisure, Discover, Vogue, the Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New Yorker. A graduate of Yale, Lord was for twelve years a syndicated political cartoonist and columnist based at Newsday. She teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC.

Reviews

[Sean Carroll · Rating 4 out of 5]

There actually were little essays between chapters of political cartoons so I don't feel odd about chalking this up in goodreads. It also gives me a chance to say how much I love these odd little horizontal books of political cartoons that I've loved forever and somewhat collected. The fact that most of the grist of years past is indecipherable to someone who didn't live through it is part of the appeal (even if you study and love history, some are just too obscure) and the other component is how much this remain the same, noattter how much they remain the same.