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Book

Dr. Seuss goes to war : the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel

Call Number

  • 940.54 G3132 (CEN)

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Edition

Paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : New Press ; San Diego : Published in cooperation with the Dr. Seuss Collection at the University of California, San Diego, [2001]

Physical Description

272 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm

Added Uniform Title

PM (New York, N.Y.)

Summary

Presents more than two hundred reproductions of the political cartoons of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, written during World War II for the daily newspaper, "PM," between 1941 and 1942, and that comment on isolationism, racism, and anti-Semitism. Primary source material.

Notes

Cartoons drawn for the New York daily newspaper PM.

Contents

  • Introduction / Art Spiegelman
  • Some important dates
  • Dr. Seuss and PM
  • The home front
  • Hitler and Nazi Germany
  • The rest of the World
  • Winning and war
  • Concluding thoughts.

Subjects

Added Authors

Richard H Minear