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Husbands, Wives and Live-Togethers by William Hamilton
$60.00
A delightful book of humor by William Hamilton, beloved “New Yorker” cartoonist, best known for his gimlet-eyed skewerings of the Manhattan branch of the WASP tribe.
Richard Calhoun, in the World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, describes Hamilton's work:“His close-up renderings of features have more the quality of preliminary portrait sketches than of caricature ... His humor also tends to be of a rather personal stamp—very much New York, corporate and Ivy League in setting, and dedicated to the deflation of intellectual pretension and cliché ... those familiar with the rather hermetic environment he satirizes will laugh (or wince) at his thrusts. Especially keen are his frequent variations upon the theme of the cocktail party—surely one of civilization's most persistent forms of self-inflicted torture. The drink is innocuous, the food familiar, and the topics of conversation hopelessly predictable.”
Hamilton’s friend, Lewis H. Lapham, described Hamilton's work: "You were never in doubt about who the cartoonist was. He had a particular beat, as it were — the preppy world, the…Protestant WASP establishment that was on their way out, holding onto their diminishing privileges."
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