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Joshua C. Kendall was born in New York City. He received his BA (summa cum laude) from Yale, where he studied comparative literature. An award-winning freelance journalist, he has written on history, politics, biography, health care, and neuroscience for many national magazines and newspapers, including BusinessWeek, Mother Jones, The Nation, Politico, Slate, Time, Wired, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Boston, where he has ample opportunity to indulge his love of squash. He is currently an associate fellow of Yale's Trumbull College. His previous books include First Dads, The Man Who Made Lists, and The Forgotten Founding Father.
“Garry Trudeau, the most perceptive and delightful social satirist of our times, chronicled and defined a generation. In this well-reported and -researched book, Joshua Kendall helps us understand the roots of his humor and insight.” * WALTER ISAACSON * “Through Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau emerged as one of the most sophisticated and insightful explainers of our generation’s vision of America. This excellent biography describes Garry as he was when I hung out with him as a teenager, and when I reconnected with him decades later. Kendall's finely wrought portrait will introduce the rest of America to the funny and kind truth-teller whom I have been proud to call a friend for over sixty years.” * HOWARD DEAN * “The nation's first investigative cartoonist, Garry Trudeau has been both breaking stories and getting Americans to laugh at themselves for over half a century. In this fast-paced, engaging narrative, Joshua Kendall traces the arc of Trudeau's exemplary career. Kendall's entertaining book will provide readers with both a deeper understanding of recent American history and many smiles.” * TOM BROKAW, anchor of NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004 and author of the #1 New York Times bestsel * “An exemplary biography, not just of a single American genius, but of the part of the baby boom generation that never stopped struggling to make the world better than they found it.” * RICK PERLSTEIN, New York Times bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge * “In Trudeau and Doonesbury, Joshua Kendall offers a compelling biography of one of our nation’s greatest journalists, a man who can distill an essay’s worth of analysis, critique, and satire into a four-panel comic strip. Kendall explores Garry Trudeau’s entire life, from his early comics at Yale—where he satirized his fellow student George W. Bush—to his nationwide fame. His outstanding book helps us understand how Trudeau became a spokesman for our generation, someone who spoke truth to power while compelling us to laugh along at life’s many absurdities.” * HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University *
