Dr Suess Goes to War - The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Informationen zum Autor One of the country's leading historians of Japan during World War II, Richard H. Minear is a retired professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (The New Press) and Victors’ Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Art Spiegelman is a writer and cartoonist, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus . Klappentext The hardcover edition of Dr. Seuss Goes to War was published to extraordinary acclaim, selling out four printings and featured in publications from the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times to Entertainment Weekly and Mother Jones. Now, for the first time, the book that the New York Times Book Review hailed as "fascinating" is available in paperback.For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions of more than two hundred of Geisel's cartoons, alongside "insightful" (Booklist) commentary by the historian Richard H. Minear that places them in the context of the national climate they reflect.Pulitzer Prize -- winner Art Spiegelman's introduction places Seuss firmly in the pantheon of the leading political cartoonists of our time. Zusammenfassung This volume contains a treasure trove of World War II era political cartoons by the creator of "The Cat in the Hat", as political cartoonist for the New York daily newspaper. His remarkable and arresting cartoons exhort readers to give full support to the war effort, put up with shortages, buy US savings bonds, and help control inflation....

Product details

• Authors: Dr Seuss, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Richard Minear, Richard H Minear, Richard H. Minear, Seuss, Dr Seuss
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1999
• EAN: 9781565847040
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-704-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, HISTORY / Military / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / United States, Second World War, United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, Comic book & cartoon art, Modern warfare, Comic book and cartoon artwork, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General