Friday Reads: Trudeau & Doonsbury by Joshua Kendall
“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 Timesbestselling author ofSteve JobsandElon Musk
The definitive account of the life and work of Garry Trudeau, creator of the massively popular Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonDoonesbury, 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.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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