This fine collection of Hy Rosen's work over the past decade comes on the occasion of a personal anniversary of sorts which adds to the pleasure and honor of offering these few words of introduction.
Harry Truman; Lyndon B. Johnson; Lady Bird Johnson; Hubert Humphrey; Abraham Lincoln; Nelson Rockefeller; John Wayne; Jack Benny; Pope John Paul I; Mao Tse-tung [Mao Zedong]; Thurman Munson; Roberto Clemente
Henry Kissinger; Shah of Iran; King Faisal; Edward Heath [Ted Heath]; Georges Pompidou; Santa Claus; drivers; pump jockeys; Uncle Sam; OPEC (symbolic figure); Malcolm Wilson; Statue of Liberty
Ronald Reagan; extreme right (symbolic figure); George McGovern; Hubert Humphrey; Gerald Ford; Henry Kissinger; Uncle Sam; Daniel Moynihan; Al D'Amato; Edward M. Kennedy [Ted Kennedy]; Democratic party donkey; arch conservative wing (symbolic figure); John Chancellor; Barbara Walters; Walter Cronkite; John Anderson
Love Canal victims; Hooker Chemicals (symbolic figure); General Electric (symbolic figure); Uncle Sam; Gerald Ford; U. S. Steel (symbolic figure); taxpayer (symbolic figure); CIA [C.I.A.] [Central Intelligence Agency] (symbolic figure); military pensions (symbolic figure); Earl Butz; Jimmy Carter; Congress (symbolic figure); black youth (symbolic figure); Hunt brothers; G. William Miller
Anwar Sadat; Menachem Begin; Richard Nixon; Henry Kissinger; Walter Cronkite; Jimmy Carter; Leonid Brezhnev; Nguyen van Thieu; boat people; Vietnamese refugees; Jane Fonda; Joan Baez; Pope John Paul II; Black Africa (symbolic figure); Idi Amin; Arab terrorists; Yasser Arafat; Lebanese Muslims; Lebanese Christians; Omar Torrijos; Hafez Assad; Moammar Khadafy [Muammar Gadaffi]; PLO [P.L.O.] [Palestine Liberation Organization]; Fidel Castro; Mexico (symbolic figure); Anatoly Shcharansky; Andrei Sakharov; Chiang Ching; Hua Guofeng; P.O.W.; Lech Walesa; Iran (symbolic igure); Iraq (symbolic figure); Iraq-Iran War (symbolic figure)
Statue of Liberty; doctor; patient; government bureaucracy (symbolic figure); Panic Bug (symbolic figure); Spiro Agnew; G. Gordon Liddy; Reverend Jim Jones; Blind Justice (symbolic figure); Patty Hearst; U. S. Postal Service (symbolic figure); Bobby Riggs; Billie Jean King; Lee Iacocca; Erastus Corning II