New Yorker Album

by The New Yorker

Book Overview

The New Yorker is considered by many, including some outside New York City, to be the best literary magazine in the world. The quality of the articles is first rate and it is the place to go if your... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670509272
• ISBN13: 9780670509270
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The best cartoons that appeared in the best magazine

The cartoonists whose work has appeared in "The New Yorker" have always been among the best of their time. They were funny, profound, socially biting, satirical, and politically sharp, sometimes simultaneously. This book is a collection of 500 of the best of the over 40,000 that appeared in the magazine over the fifty years from 1925 to 1975. If you enjoy the brand of cartoon that has been a staple of "The New Yorker", then this is a book you must read.

Fifty years of social change through cartoons

The New Yorker is considered by many, including some outside New York City, to be the best literary magazine in the world. The quality of the articles is first rate and it is the place to go if your interest is in current intellectual thought. Even the cartoons have an intellectual bent, although they often poke fun at the arrogance of intellectualism and the snobbishness of the privileged class. Over the fifty years covered in this volume, you can see many changes in the social fabric of the country. The style of dress and the dialog change dramatically from the start to the end, but the cartoons remain entertaining throughout. While most of them can be understood by anyone, a bit of historical knowledge is necessary if you are to understand some of those from the earlier years. For example, the cartoon where a young boy sees an Indian wearing a feathered bonnet and cries, "Quick mama - look! President Coolidge!" makes little sense to anyone unfamiliar with the classic picture of Coolidge wearing that headgear. Sometimes we read books for knowledge, other times we do it for fun. In this case, you can have a lot of fun looking through these cartoons.