A new collection of portraits of cultural legends from the only cartoonist to have graced the covers of both New Yorker and Mad magazine, and seemingly everything in between.
The celebrated satirical portraitist renders all 44 United States presidents, this book of illustrations also features a foreword by Kurt Andersen, the author and host of public radio's Studio 360.
Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder, Zip the Pinhead, Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins, Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks, Koo Koo the Birdgirl, and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew Friedman's delightful portraits. Before the politically correct impulses of the 1970s squelched the grand American tradition of the sideshow -- people born with abnormalities and others, like Jolly Jer...