And the Pursuit of Happiness
by Kalman, Maira
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- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 1594202672
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202674
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Synopsis
Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, celebrated illustrator Maira Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a year-long investigation of American democracy and its workings. The result is an artist’s idiosyncratic vision of history and contemporary politics. Whether returning to America’s historical roots at the Lincoln archive and Jefferson’s Monticello, or taking the pulse of the present day at a town hall meeting in Vermont, an Army base in Kentucky, and the inner chambers of the Supreme Court, Kalman finds evidence of democracy at work all around us. Her route is always one of fascinating indirection, but one that captures and shares in hundreds of beautiful, colorful reasons why we are proud to be Americans.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 92753
- Title
- And the Pursuit of Happiness
- Author
- Kalman, Maira
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594202672
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202674
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 2010
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