Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2000

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Summary: Consistant with the past, an excellent collection
Review: I have almost all editions collected by Charles Brooks since 1990, and this is an excellent supplement. As before, the presentation is a diverse combination of the very best in editoral cartoons. This book presents a genuine self-examination of not only US politics but all aspects of life on Earth.

Rating:
Summary: Consistant with the past, an excellent collection
Review: I have almost all editions collected by Charles Brooks since 1990, and this is an excellent supplement. As before, the presentation is a diverse combination of the very best in editoral cartoons. This book presents a genuine self-examination of not only US politics but all aspects of life on Earth.

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Summary: The Year 1999 as chronicled by editorial cartoonists
Review: I have always appreciated history textbooks that included editorial cartoons because they bring the passions of the times to light in a way columns of text or even photographs can never capture. The "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2000 Edition" actually covers the events of 1999. And what story dominated the news way back when? Well, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon by David Horsey shows Bill Clinton as Peter Pan, Monica Lewinsky as Tinkerbelle, and Newt Gingrich as Captain Hook. The winners of the National Headliner Award and the National Society of Professional Journalists Award both show Clinton as well: Clay Bennett has Clinton as a fish swimming away with seven hooks that have failed to catch him while Jack Higgins has Clinton diagramming a sentence regarding the "President's Tense, Past Imperfect." So when Charles Brooks edited together this volume he had to include a lot of editorial cartoons about the Clinton Administration and other political shenanigans. Even back in 1999 the coming campaign between Al Gore and George W. Bush was beginning to shape up, although Bill Bradley and John McCain are fodder as well (you can do a great history of the 2000 Presidential election using just editorial cartoons). This was also the year of Columbine, which produced dozens of cartoons dealing with the gun control issue. Kosovo, the Y2K bug, and the death fo John F. Kennedy, Jr. were also significant. However, you will also find lesser topics as well that are equally memorable, from "The Phantom Menace" to posting the 10 Commandments in public schools. If you want to take a walk down memory lane circa 1999, then this is the way you want to go.

Rating:
Summary: The Year 1999 as chronicled by editorial cartoonists
Review: I have always appreciated history textbooks that included editorial cartoons because they bring the passions of the times to light in a way columns of text or even photographs can never capture. The "Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 2000 Edition" actually covers the events of 1999. And what story dominated the news way back when? Well, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon by David Horsey shows Bill Clinton as Peter Pan, Monica Lewinsky as Tinkerbelle, and Newt Gingrich as Captain Hook. The winners of the National Headliner Award and the National Society of Professional Journalists Award both show Clinton as well: Clay Bennett has Clinton as a fish swimming away with seven hooks that have failed to catch him while Jack Higgins has Clinton diagramming a sentence regarding the "President's Tense, Past Imperfect." So when Charles Brooks edited together this volume he had to include a lot of editorial cartoons about the Clinton Administration and other political shenanigans. Even back in 1999 the coming campaign between Al Gore and George W. Bush was beginning to shape up, although Bill Bradley and John McCain are fodder as well (you can do a great history of the 2000 Presidential election using just editorial cartoons). This was also the year of Columbine, which produced dozens of cartoons dealing with the gun control issue. Kosovo, the Y2K bug, and the death fo John F. Kennedy, Jr. were also significant. However, you will also find lesser topics as well that are equally memorable, from "The Phantom Menace" to posting the 10 Commandments in public schools. If you want to take a walk down memory lane circa 1999, then this is the way you want to go.

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Summary: Tour-de-force presentation of recent political cartoon humor
Review: The 2000 edition is out, and it provides hilarious analogies of Kenneth Starr and Clinton, Y2K, and other major editorial issues of our times. From a Coke-snorting Al Gore to the appearance of the ghost of labor day past, Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year is filled with black and white editorial cartoons from a variety of sources who remark on modern ironies and inconsistencies.