Alongside more than 172 of his drawings, cartoons, and caricatures-and in prose as spirited and wickedly pointed as his artwork-Edward Sorel gives us an unforgettable self-portrait: his poor Depression-era childhood in the Bronx; his first stabs at drawing when pneumonia kept him out of school at age eight; the scrappy early days of Push Pin Studios; his two marriages and four children; and his many friends in New York's art and literary circles. As the "young lefty" becomes an "old lefty," Sorel charts the highlights of his remarkable life, by both telling us and showing us how in magazines and newspapers, books, murals, cartoons, and comic strips, he steadily lampooned-and celebrated-American cultural and political life. Sorel reveals the kaleidoscopic ways in which the personal and political collide in art.