Outstripping the News

Garry Wills

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40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
by G.B. Trudeau
Andrews McMeel, 695 pp., $100.00

Doonesbury’s characters are now in their third generation, and we have lived with them through four decades of turbulent times—wars, scandals (Watergate, S and L, “Koreagate,” Iran-contra, Katrina, and others), and political campaigns, many of which Trudeau covered as closely as any journalist while catching the essence of each era in unfailingly funny ways.

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