Funny Business av Michael Hill, Christopher Buckley

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<b>“A delightful and entertaining book about one of America’s greatest humorists.”—Seth Meyers</b><br><br><b>This “absorbing, illuminating” (Jon Meacham) biography of the legendary political humorist reveals the life behind his must-read <i>Washington Post</i> columns, featuring never-before-published photos, documents, and interviews.</b><br><br>Before Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and <i>Doonesbury,</i> there was Art Buchwald. For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize–winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a popular player in the Washington world of Ethel and Ted Kennedy, Ben Bradlee, and Katharine Graham. Dean Acheson, former U.S. Secretary of State, called Buchwald the “greatest satirist in the English language since Pope and Swift.”<br><br>Drawing on Buchwald’s most memorable colu