Dr Seuss & Co. Go To War by Andre Schiffrin
Brings together over 300 all-new cartoons from the WWII era, including over 100 by Dr Seuss, 50 by The New Yorker's Saul Steinberg and works by Al Hirschfeld, Carl Rose and Mischa Richter. The cartoons and commentary cover the five years of the war and are divided into five chapters exploring the years leading up to the war, Hitler and Germany, Hitler's Allies, The Home Front and Germany's defeat.
An interesting journey providing snapshots in history from times when US. involvement in the war was no foregone conclusion and later moments when victory was no guarantee.”
—Comics Alliance
And now, rescued from the newsprint where they moldered unseen for over half a century, we can turn to the cartoons that let us know what happened when Horton hears a heil.”
—Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus
Scathing, fascinating stuff A provocative history of wartime politics.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Fascinating.”
—The New York Book Review
Vigorous, trenchant, and vividly remarkable.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
—Comics Alliance
And now, rescued from the newsprint where they moldered unseen for over half a century, we can turn to the cartoons that let us know what happened when Horton hears a heil.”
—Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus
Scathing, fascinating stuff A provocative history of wartime politics.”
—Entertainment Weekly
Fascinating.”
—The New York Book Review
Vigorous, trenchant, and vividly remarkable.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as the founding director of The New Press, André Schiffrin was responsible for a great many books on World War II, including Stud Terkel’s The Good War”, Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat. He is the author of several books himself, among them The Business of Books, A Political Education, and most recently, Words and Money.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781595585455 |
| ISBN 10 | 1595585451 |
| Title | Dr Seuss & Co. Go To War |
| Author | Andre Schiffrin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New Press |
| Year published | 2011-01-27 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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