Lost in Space The Reagan Years

by Tony Auth

"It is a rapid, carefree line that Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Auth uses to satirize and skewer the politicos and issues of our times ranging from Ronald Reagan to religion. [The book] includes the best of Auth's work from 1981 to 1987, which appears weekly in newspapers nationwide. Eleven chapters cover the subjects of "voodoo" economics, assorted scandals, civil rights, religion, the environment, the arms race, assorted dictators, Central America, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and, of course, the American scene. Lost in Space is a clever and very funny lampoon of the people, places, and events that surrounded us during Reagan's administration." - from the rear outer cover.

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Tony Auth is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the author and illustrator of books for children. He discovered drawing when he was bedridden for a year and a half at the age of five, and his mother came into his room with paper, crayons, and pencils. Now he divides his time between creating irreverent political cartoons for adults and whimsical drawings for kids. Thanks, Mom.

Thoughts from Tony Auth: “I was drawing a political cartoon on a completely different subject while listening to the Senate hearings on the Watergate scandal. To my astonishment and delight, testimony revealed that President Richard Nixon had installed a secret taping system in the White House. I immediately went to work on another drawing, a version of the illustration you see in Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out.”