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Edward Sorel has been wielding his squiggle-prone, satirical pen for more than 40 years, poignarding the heroes, villains, and holy fools of history. Sometimes he looks far into the past for his subjects: we're not likely to see a more human image of Moses, parting the Red Sea for a horde of skeptical followers. ("If he's so smart," one complains, "why doesn't he make these dead fish disappear?") And his picture of a pouting Napoleon, who's just given Josephine her walking papers for failing to produce an heir, catches the man at a less-than-imperial moment. Yet Sorel is even better when it comes to modern times. Who else has gotten down the dime-store priapism of Hugh Hefner with such good humor? Sorel captures James Joyce's myopic intensity, Tom Wolfe's white-suited dandyism, and Lyndon Johnson at his grinning, victorious, ballot-stuffing best. Serving up our household gods in black and white or color, Unauthorized Portraits opens a window into contemporary culture, and a hugely entertaining one at that.
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The New York Times Book Review, Russell Connor
One of the delights in this books is that Edward Sorel, among our most eminent makers of what he calls "comic portraits that are deliberately hurtful," so frequently fails to suppress his enjoyment of life. Bitterness is mocked by playfulness, and moral outrage gives way to a youthful spirit of celebration. Sooner or later, each man draws the thing he loves.
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