Michael Casey | The Image Mirror

This looks cool: a picture book of 20th century political icons with some introductory text in which Andrew Roberts discusses how manipulated images mess with our minds, how they make us fall in rapture with their subjects. The book is entirely comprised of postcards.

Che is there, of course. Who else would be on the cover? But he’s far from the only one. Says Carolyn Kellogg, who reviewed the little book in the LA Times, “Everyone, it seemed — Hitler, Pope John Paul II, Emperor Haile Selassie — wound up on a postcard” last century.

Incidentally, Kellogg makes reference to my book and to a generally positive review by her colleague , David Ulin, which ran in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday.