Joker’s wild: Dubya’s trick deck
“Joker’s wild: Dubya’s trick deck” satirical playing cards published by Seven Stories Press in 2004.
This oversize pack is a colourful and highly critical broadside against George W. Bush, 43rd President of the USA and other prominent figures associated with his administration. It was published by Seven Stories Press in 2004. The text on each card was written by Greg Palast and the cartoons were drawn by Robert Grossman. Palast is the author of “The best democracy money can buy” – an indication of the contents of the cards, while Grossman’s cartoons have appeared in the New York Observer and the New York Times. See the box►
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Above: “Joker’s wild: Dubya’s trick deck” satirical playing cards published by Seven Stories Press in 2004. Oversize pack (140mm x 90mm).
By Peter Burnett
United Kingdom • Member since July 27, 2022
I graduated in Russian and East European Studies from Birmingham University in 1969. It was as an undergraduate in Moscow in 1968 that I stumbled upon my first 3 packs of “unusual” playing cards which fired my curiosity and thence my life-long interest. I began researching and collecting cards in the early 1970s, since when I’ve acquired over 3,330 packs of non-standard cards, mainly from North America, UK and Western Europe, and of course from Russia and the former communist countries.
Following my retirement from the Bodleian Library in Dec. 2007 I took up a new role as Head of Library Development at the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) to support library development in low-income countries. This work necessitated regular training visits to many sub-Saharan African countries and also further afield, to Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh – all of which provided rich opportunities to further expand my playing card collection.
Since 2019 I’ve been working part-time in the Bodleian Library where I’ve been cataloguing the bequest of the late Donald Welsh, founder of the English Playing Card Society.
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