Description
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.
About the Author
In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as the founding director of The New Press, Andre 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.
Reviews
"An interesting journey providing snapshots in history from times when U.S. 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781595585455
Author Andre Schiffrin
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press
Weight(grams) 685g
About the Author
In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as the founding director of The New Press, Andre 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.
Reviews
"An interesting journey providing snapshots in history from times when U.S. 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781595585455
Author Andre Schiffrin
Format Paperback
Page Count 282
Imprint The New Press
Publisher The New Press
Weight(grams) 685g
