Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780593229521,0593229525,2021039045,2021039046

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• ISBN-10: 0593229525
• ISBN-13: 9780593229521
• Author: Michael Hill

Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Doonesbury, there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize–winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift.”

Drawing on Buchwald’s most memorable columns and unpublished correspondence with other famous people, Funny Business shows how Art Buchwald became an American original. Like Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and James Thurber, he satirized political scoundrels, lampooned the powerful, and “worshipped the quicksand” that ten presidents walked on, as Buchwald joked. “The key to Buchwald’s style of humor, he once stated, was to “treat light subjects seriously and serious subjects lightly.”

Table contents:

Part I: From Class Clown to Our Trib Man in Paris

Chapter 1: “Plastered in Paris”

Chapter 2: Raising the Stature of Ink

Part II: “Down the Seine and Up the Potomac”

Chapter 3: “Salinger’s Folly” and “Bounties of the Banned”

Chapter 4: Brumus, Batman, and Buchwald “Buchshots”

Chapter 5: Buchwald at Large

Part III: The World According to Art

Chapter 6: The Great Joe Mayflower Feud

Chapter 7: “Cruise Director on the Titanic”

Chapter 8: Say Amen, Art Buchwald, Say Amen

Chapter 9: Joining the Hertz Five Star Credit Card Club

Chapter 10: A Satirist Wins a Pulitzer, but Loses His Humidor

Part IV: Tears of the Clown

Chapter 11: A Matter of Honor

Chapter 12: Drama in Department 52

Chapter 13: Buchwald Blues

Chapter 14: “There’s Life in the Boy Yet”

Chapter 15: “I Just Don’t Want to Die the Same Day as Castro”

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