All the Art That's Fit to Print (And Some That Wasn't)

The never-before-told story of the world's first Op-Ed page.

Jerelle Kraus is the award-winning art director whose thirty-year tenure at the New York Times includes a record thirteen years at Op-Ed. She also worked as an art director at Time and as the art director of Ramparts magazine and of Francis Ford Coppola's City magazine.

The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine have published Kraus's writing, including an "On Language" column that subbed for William Safire. Fluent in four languages, she was educated at Swarthmore and Pomona colleges and at l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She received an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Fulbright scholarship to Munich. Her Web site is jerellekraus.com.

[This] provocative book examines the images that shattered the conventions of newspaper imagery.

An excellent reminder of the power of editorial illustration. These images do so much more than break up the gray space of columns of text. This book gives life to an underappreciated, and often unexamined, form of visual journalism.

Beth Haller:
Part memoir, part art book, and part journalism history. But all parts are exemplary.

Michael Socolow:
As a memoir, Kraus's work provides colorful, intimate, and occasionally searing portraits of several high-ranking Times executives.

An intensely personal history of the [op-ed] page as it weathered tempests and tinpot tyrannies at the Times.

Worth the price of the book is Kraus's 2 1/2-hour encounter with former President Richard Nixon.

Readers will be entertained and come away with a deeper appreciation of the power of illustration.

A chronicle of late twentieth-century history, replete with sardonic images of tyrants and visual commentaries on the fall of communism; the works of Eastern Europeans who fled totalitarian regimes are some of the most challenging and resonant. In this overflowing treasure chest of ideas, politics and cultural critiques, Kraus proves that 'art is dangerous' and sometimes necessarily so.