The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans is a 1925 book by Miguel Covarrubias, a Mexican cartoonist.
[1] The future Edward VIII, alluded to in the title, appears as the frontispiece at a race track; he had made a widely publicized visit to the United States in 1924.
[2][3] Many of the drawings were originally published in Vanity Fair magazine, which employed Covarrubias as a staff cartoonist.
The book was well received and increased Covarrubias's reputation,[1] although a reviewer in Theatre Arts Monthly described the characterizations as "surgically cruel".
[4] Katherine Ann Porter described them as demonstrating "genius" in their "keen satirical comment", with "only one failure: Babe Ruth.