Action Figure: The Life and Times Of Doonesbury's Uncle Duke (Paperback)

by G. B. Trudeau (Author) "YOUR TIMING COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER, SON - YOUR MOTHER HAS QUITE A HOME COMING FEAST WHIPPED UP...." (more)

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Product Description
Hot on the heels of his surprising in-your-face presidential campaign, the roots of candidate Duke are revisited in this reissue of Action Figure!, the definitive history of his adventures from 1970 to 1991. The perennial bad boy of American comics has always been a man of action: libelous action, irrational action, covert action, back-street action - even when comatose, he has a certain flair. Duke is the man of a thousand vices, with almost as many pages to his resume. For 17 years, from Samoa to China to Panama to Kuwait, wherever serious mischief was being dealt, Duke has been a major figure. Action Figure! gives the Toasted One his due - one vast, staggering flashback that tracks his careening career from Gonzo Journalist to Governor, Ambassador, Coach, Laetrile Farmer, Fugitive, and Zombie. No risk has been too great, no prospect too strange, to sway the man with nerves of steel from his random course.

About the Author
Raised in Saranac Lake, N.Y., Garry Trudeau began drawing Doonesbury in 1970 as Bull Tales in the Yale Daily News. He has also written for television and the Broadway stage and is a contributing essayist for the New York Times and Time. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740715542
• ISBN-13: 978-0740715549
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #695,666 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious, March 12, 2006

By	Johnno (Australia) - See all my reviews

Hilarious. Uncle Duke based on Hunter S Thompson, bumbles through life in a hallucinary haze serving his opportunistic self-interests first, usually egged on by the corrupt players who run the USA machine.

Uncle Duke sees locations as diverse as China, Haiti, Panama, Kuwait, Hollywood, Iran,Washington, New York. And a job description that includes US Ambassador to China, Governor of American Samoa, football coach, tour guide, bar owner, movie producer, CEO of a highly dodgy medical schoo based in the Bahamas, Ship's captain for Donald Trump, zombie.....amongst others.

A good example as an oilman and Uncle Duke are having a conversation,

Oilman: "What's your going rate for committing an unspeakably depraved but highly patriotic act?"

Duke: "$100,000 + 10%"

Oilman: "I respect you too much to haggle."

Duke: " But I don't work with Albanians and children and pets are extra."

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5.0 out of 5 stars Never been reviewed?, July 2, 2003

By	James Ciscell (Starkville, MS USA) - See all my reviews

I am in absolute disbelief that no review has ever been given for this masterpiece. I read this book once a week in college. My friends and I could quote it as well as any cult movie of the nineties. "Fetch my dart gun, boy" and other phrases in this book became second nature to us. I cannot possibly recommend any book more strongly than Action Figure and I am in absolute disbelief that is has never been reviewed before. Buy this book...now...and that's my final offer.