Cartoons offer a satirical look at capital punishment, the federal budget, the Iran Contra affair, the PTL scandal, gun control, air travel, the Challenger disaster, and the presidential primaries
I Feel Your Pain!" by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette, is an up-to-date smorgasbord of 400 stinging, insightful, and hilariously funny satires of American politics and society. These cartoons find the absurd in hot-button issues such as race, religion, foreign policy, violence, drugs, education, and of course, politics, politics, politics. Pat Conroy, in his foreword to "I Feel Your Pain!" captures the spirit of Marlette's cartoons. "Doug Marlette is a prince of mayhem and unrest..".
A prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justice When the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Doug Marlette last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in The Washington Post Book World: "The Bridge [is] a great story—exuberant, proud, myth-challenging—and Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling." Pat Conroy saluted The Bridge as the finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since Look Homeward, Angel. Studs Turkel called it "enthralling." Kaye Gibbons marveled at its "extraordinary grace [and] humor." And the Southeast Booksellers Association gave The Bridge the 2002 Book Award for Fiction. Marlette's new novel, Magic Time, is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, Magic Time tells the story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of ‘64 with a New York–born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up. Magic Time is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.
A prize-winning Southern master storyteller weaves a riveting tale of love, mystery and justice When the Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist Doug Marlette last turned to fiction, Valerie Sayers rejoiced in The Washington Post Book World: "The Bridge [is] a great story—exuberant, proud, myth-challenging—and Marlette has a great, Dickensian time with the telling." Pat Conroy saluted The Bridge as the finest first novel to come out of North Carolina since Look Homeward, Angel. Studs Turkel called it "enthralling." Kaye Gibbons marveled at its "extraordinary grace [and] humor." And the Southeast Booksellers Association gave The Bridge the 2002 Book Award for Fiction. Marlette's new novel, Magic Time, is a spellbinding stew of history, murder, courtroom drama, humor, love, betrayal, and justice. Moving between New York City and the New South of the early 1990s, with flashbacks to Mississippi's cataclysmic Freedom Summer of 1964, Magic Time tells the story of New York newspaper columnist Carter Ransom, a son of Mississippi, who had the great fortune and terrible luck of falling in love that summer of ‘64 with a New York–born civil rights worker who wound up being killed alongside three coworkers. Carter's father, the local judge, presided over the first trial of the murders. But now there's evidence that the original trial was flawed, even fraudulent. And the question, among many others, is whether the good judge was knowingly involved in a cover-up. Magic Time is that rare thing: a page-turner whose driving plot line is matched by the depth of its moral vision.
Quand Histoire et destinées individuelles se croisent... 1965. Alors que le mouvement des droits civiques porté par Martin Luther King s'étend dans tous les États-Unis, le pays a les yeux fixés sur Troy, une petite localité du Mississippi. Quatre jeunes activistes y ont péri dans l'incendie d'une église. Deux membres du Ku Klux Klan sont arrêtés et condamnés à perpétuité. 1990. L'un des condamnés libère sa conscience en désignant le vrai responsable du crime. Un nouveau procès se prépare donc à Troy. De retour dans sa ville natale, Carter Ransom, ancien sympathisant dans la lutte pour les droits civiques et journaliste au New York Examiner, est aux avant-postes. Son premier amour, Sarah Solomon, faisait partie des victimes et son père, le tout-puissant juge Mitchell Ransom, avait conduit le premier procès. Carter veut faire toute la lumière sur cette période qui l'a marqué à jamais. Et c'est dans le passé qu'il va devoir fouiller pour mettre au jour une vérité aussi terrible qu'inattendue. Doug Marlette retrace ici toute une époque, trouble, pleine de non-dits, de soupçons et de positions ambiguës, mais aussi de courage, de droiture et de passion. Celle de la lutte pour les droits civiques. Avec une intrigue haletante et des personnages d'une rare humanité, Doug Marlette signe un chef-d'œuvre, à classer entre les romans de John Grisham et de Tom Wolfe.
A celebration of Chicago's landmark restaurant Hot Doug's, with history from owner Doug Sohn, essays and anecdotes from patrons, and appreciations from culinary professionals"--Provided by publisher.
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