Dr. Seuss Goes to Warby Richard H. Minear | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 266 |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Date Added: | 08/08/2006 |
| Date Read: | 08/04/2001 |
| Notes: | Subtitle: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Before Yertle, before the Cat in the Hat, before Little Cindy-Lou Who (but after Mulberry Street), Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) made his living as a political cartoonist for New York newspaper PM. Seuss drew over 400 cartoons in just under two years for the paper, reflecting the daily's New Deal liberal slant. Starting in early 1941, when PM advocated American involvement in World War II, Seuss savaged the fascists with cunning caricatures. He also turned his pen against America's internal enemies — isolationists, hoarders, complainers, anti-Semites, and anti-black racists — and urged Americans to work together to win the war. The cartoons are often funny, peopled with bowler-hatted "everymen" and what author Art Spiegelman calls "Seussian fauna" in his preface. |
| My Rating: | 7 |