Dr Seuss & Co. Go To War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of America's Leading Comic Artists

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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.

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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

Author Bio

In close to fifty years as an editor, first at Pantheon Books and then as the founding director of The New Press, Andr Schiffrin was responsible for a great many books on World War II, including Stud Terkels The Good War, Art Spiegelmans 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.