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Library Journal Review

You've read one Art Buchwald book, you've read 'em all. Right? Wrong. What makes Buchwald a widely read columnisthis week-to-week ability to make light of the human comedy with unerring accuracyis what ensures the success of his collections of selections. Who and what is Buchwald ``picking on'' in this volume? Government lead ers, including the President, members of Congress, the cabinet, and the jus tice department, as well as a variety of professions: medicine, journalism, real estate; and then, of course, members of his family and anyone else who catches his fancy. There's a laugh to be found on every page. And at 332 pages, that works out to a laugh a day for almost a year. As well as some intelligent hu mor, to boot. That's worth the price. Recommended for public libraries. Carol Spielman Lezak, General Learn ing Corp., Highland Park, Ill. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Columnist Art Buchwald was born in Mt. Vernon, New York on October 20, 1925. At the age of 17, he dropped out of high school and joined the Marines. He served from October 1942 to October 1945 and then enrolled at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles to study liberal arts. In 1948, he left the university and traveled to Paris where he worked as a correspondent for Variety magazine and later as a columnist for the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to the United States in 1962, wrote more than 30 books, and had a column in The Washington Post, which dealt with political satire and commentary. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1982, was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1986, and received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He died of kidney failure on January 17, 2007.

(Bowker Author Biography)