The Saturday Evening Post

From 1899 to 1969, millions of Americans saw themselves each Tuesday in the cover art of the most popular magazine in the country. Collected here is every cover of The Saturday Evening Post still in existence. Topical, whimsical, or sentimental, the covers are illuminated by a text that traces the evolution of the magazine.

Thirty-one illustrations by Norman Rockwell appear in all their heartwarming glory in this classic and collectible coloring book, handpicked from hundreds of covers that the artist created for The Saturday Evening Post.

Thirty-one ready-to-color cover illustrations by some of The Saturday Evening Post's most celebrated artists include iconic images by John Falter, Stevan Dohanos, George Hughes, Richard "Dick" Sargent, and others.

The tractor salesman, Alexander Botts, is the personification of the American dream: He is his own boss. Although he is 'employed' by the Earthworm Tractor Company (i.e. Caterpiller, where William Hazlett Upson, Bott's creator worked for five years) it takes only one or two of the letters in Botts' immortal prose to make clear just who is in command ...

For well over a century, hundreds of thousands of American families have enjoyed the award-winning magazine The Saturday Evening Post. Now, for the first time, 150 of the magazine's best cartoons have been collected in an attractive volume that's destined to become a classic.

To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession - to be used, misused or discarded like anything else at Newton Law, his grand estate on Northumberland's wild moore. The gamekeeper they call Duffy thinks he has never seen anything quite so brave as Amy Blenkinsopp as she faces up to her husband - and is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement. With the help of Sir Robert's servants and the increasingly devoted Duffy, she makes the estate not only happier but richer as well. But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, on her children, and on the man who has come to love her.

From 1899 to 1969, millions of Americans saw themselves each Tuesday in the cover art of the most popular magazine in the country. Collected here is every cover of The Saturday Evening Post still in existence. Topical, whimsical, or sentimental, the covers are illuminated by a text that traces the evolution of the magazine.